note ww Seems to me that their '<i>"indistinguishableness"</i>' -- at the level you're invoking it as something to protect -- is not and never has been the point of permitting individuals to post as AM nor is it an essential element of anonymity in the context of the Monastery. <p>Rather, the point, IMO, is to allow any persons to post what they wish, <b>without providing any link between their statement (opinion, rant, slurs, facts, code, whatever) and their actual personal identities</b> or, as you suggested earlier, any link between the statement and the writer's individual semi-anonymous handle (CountZero, ww, etc.) But AM is not an individual handle; it's used by many different (but equally anonymous) individuals<b>^*1</b>.</p> <center> - - - - - - - - - - - - - </center> <b>^*1</b> ....or so we may presume, given the varying competence with Perl, English, spelling, grammar, and so on that we can readily observe. 924794 929459