On 10/21/13 1:37 PM, l.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > A persistent identifier is helpful in sustained shared multiparty > conversation; whether it represents a "real" person or not does not > matter. Right, this is clearly a problem as stated, but there's a long history of people posting from and participating from those addresses, while the other is some individual whose only posts were ad hominem. So what's of interest here probably isn't anon-/pseudonymity, but some sort of reputation or track record. Melinda