On 10/21/13 4:27 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > I agree, but in this case the email address was obscure, the > content was irrelevant, and the tone was, at least to my eyes, > highly provocative. It was the sum of those three aspects that > set me off. Right, but the point (for me) is the problem isn't anonymity or pseudonymity per se, it's that the address was completely unfamiliar. This was someone who was not a "regular" IETF participant and with no track record of technical participation who immediately popped off with some ad hominem posts. Melinda