Perhaps this explains why so many NG and chat room users employ an alias

Anon by necessity


"Someone wrote
"Radio ham arrested over harassment on Internet

GAZETTE & HERALD: RADIO ham [named in the link below] has been
arrested in connection with the harassment of an Internet chat room
user. "

http://tinyurl.com/4catk

Anon wrote:
Anon by necessity

:NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.7.146.8

Right.

Peter Lemken
DF5JT
Berlin

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Dass man den gesunden Menschenverstand ausschalten und stattdessen an
allem so lange rumdeuteln muss, bis man die böswilligst mögliche
Interpretation gefunden hat, ist ein Armutszeugnis.