Thank you for your e-mail note — without it I would not have discovered your post in the trash. While I get your point, using your first name on this site is of no risk nor is providing an e-mail address as I’ve never sold out visitors to any of my sites in the 16 years I’ve been running business Web sites.

The concerns you note have nothing to do with configuring your e-mail program to reflect your name or in the case of commenting using your name as you did here. There are times when using your name lends credibility to your comments because you are not hiding behind a goofy nick-name — which was the point of my post.

“As far as being fearful of being sold off to spamlists thanks to netmanners.com” that fear is unjustified and to be frank a bit insulting. Not everyone in tech is looking for a lead to “data-mine”. While you complain about being sold you also don’t like the confirmation e-mails that help to prevent forums like this from being used by spammers.

Knowing how to differentiate credible and legit sites from those that will do all the things you are so concerned about is something every onliner should take the time to determine. This way you can enjoy the sites that you can trust and not exposure yourself to those that are questionable.