Hmm... Acting as not themeselves?

As in acting as if they were on the internet, using an alias instead of their own names or email address?

I humbly put it to you that most of us here are acting under pseudonyms 100% of the time we are on-line.

I also summise that a number of us have multiple accounts, myself excluded (then again nobody can disprove this).

Tis true, this is a community. Tis also true that we are not who we think we say we are. If we want some improved accountability, then we should include the IP address of the sender as well as the sender's email address in the authentication and in the postings scripts. But we don't want to do that because we want a measure of anoymity.

Are we not in a quandry in this case? We wish to remain quasi-anonymous, but we want to be able to track others down. This quandry can even lead to some funny scenarios such as one I recently experienced. In posting a node with a humorous punchline about working with French people, I got slammed by a fellow monk for attacking people. This was of course ironic because I am French, and that he is not, and his taking offense at my comment shows the depth of annonymity here. We do not know who we are dealing with, but we create our own illusions about the image others wish to reflect of themeselves.

Let's not get too pretentious and let others use the level of anonymity they are comfortable, as we desire for ourselves.

--Hackmare.
(If you actually want to know who I am, a small effort will do.)