I find it particularily interesting that on the internet (in contrast to almost every other net in existance), people have this strange fettish for worrying about anonymnity and "true names". My question is why? People on other nets never give the using of a handle or nym a second thought. (By other nets I mean Fidonet, WWIVnet, TEAMnet, C-Link, Oggnet, fvnet etc) A name is just a way of identifying a paritcular person. I don't see why people are so opposed to the use of nyms like Wonderer or Black Unicorn because those don't fit your image of what a name should be. These names identify the senders in a manner that is adequate to the discussion on Cypherpunks. Would it be any better if these people used names like Mike or John or something? Would it really make any relevant difference to the discussion on cypherpunks?