"Jonno" wrote in message
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message

Jonno wrote:
Some important warnings, DO NOT post advertisements, DO NOT post your
REAL NAME or EMAIL, and DO NOT post ANYTHING to this email forum that
you do not want search engines to find, and DO NOT post CONTACT INFO
of any kind. This will prevent a lot of problems in these areas...and
will help stop your own computer from being compromised....

Giving your correct email will certainly produce a deluge of spam, there
are bots that trawl newsgroups looking for just that. But what will
somebody do with my real name? Given the many places names can be found
isn't this a little paranoid? Now for those who may not want to be
accountable for what they say (not saying everybody who gives a false
name is like that) I can see why they would want to be anonymous.

David

Tying things together is what happens once they have your name.

Indeed. I agree with you, but then perhaps David hasn't had an attempted
murder of a member of his family. That tends to focus one's attention
somewhat, and such an attempt doesn't even necessarily involve using the
Net, but it does make one focus on what information and tracking can go on
without one being aware of it.