I don’t think our real names should be publicly available to other forum members unless we choose to disclose them, but I do think PG should have names, addresses and phone numbers tied to each user name.

Maybe one thing PG could do is only allow confirmed PG customers to create a screen name and have it tied to their account.

This would still allow the “curious” to browse the forums to get an idea of the content, but it wouldn’t allow people to create “fake” screen names for the purpose of causing trouble.

As far as sharing personal info, a lot of us on the forum consider some other forum members as friends, even though we’ve never met. There’s several members here that I’d gladly welcome into my home. Maybe that makes me naïve.

There’s a lot of good reasons why PG has a rule of one screen name per person. There's no good reason why someone would want multiple names.

Bob
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