Peter Duniho wrote:
"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
[...]
There is a long history about the emergence of Usenet anonymity dating
from the early '80s. As I recall, it was generally frowned upon.

For better or worse, there is a lot of behavior on Usenet that was generally
frowned upon historically, but which is now accepted practice.

That's because computers are being sold in grocery stores to people
that are using it as incredibly expensive scratch pads and surfing
the web. In other words, it's another television.