Geoff and Ashley, there was a time when I agreed with you, in fact I started a discussion on the topic about 10 years ago on the old BOC Email Forum focusing on Bellerophon.
But I have since realised that in global internet based forums you could be dealing with anyone.
If Bellerophon registered as John Smith you wouldn't have said anything, but you would be none the wiser. However I think the real John Smith uses something else as his registered username, so that could get very confusing (not picking on you John!).
I've also had this discussion more recently with seanmcs. But then many members won't know who seanmcs is.
Do you see my point?
This dawned on me many years ago when the BOC published in the printed BOC Bulletin, posts I myself had written in the BOC Email Forum under what I thought was a rather obvious pseudonym.
Edit: It is advisable NOT to display your email address on public forums. 'Bots' scour the internet looking for email addresses to add to spammers mail lists.
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