Letters to the Editor
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To Anonymous the Second
What you read as a dig at people who use the default "Anonymous" name was in actuality just my attempt at correct identification.
Normally in a Letters stream for any given article, multiple posters have used the Anonymous moniker, so responding to a particular one requires a bit of specificity. I found it interesting that today, when I went to post, there was but one Anonymous already on the rolls. Still, as the day was young (and as Salon visitors can read letters either oldest-to-newest or vice versa), I thought that "To Anonymous" might leave room for confusion.
I couldn't give a fig about whether someone chooses to use a real name, a pen name, or a generic such as Anonymous. It is true, however, that using any string of text that's uniquely identifiable in the Salon Letters system does at least tie a poster to her or his "body of work," so to speak. This creates a bit of accountability, as a single poster can quickly lose credibility if signed posts are self-contradictory or abusive.
To each his own, as they say. For what it's worth, I heartily agree that Bolling is at the top of his game with this strip.