The email I got this morning about my health posting included a comment I heard before. “I didn’t want to ask the question as a comment because it would reveal my name.” Asking for your name, your email address, and the little checkbox, “I’m not a robot” are all there just to keep automated spam tools from filling up the comments. Some make it all the way through that three-step process and that’s why I have to approve every comment.
How to avoid giving away your name. The form doesn’t know if the name you gave makes any sense. Jellyfish would be a perfectly good thing as far as the form is concerned – even Betty Jellyfish would work. If you do not want to reveal your email address, the solution is to create an email account just when you don’t want to use your primary one. There is nothing illegal about that. I’m an amateur radio, ham, operator and my current call letters are KCØEM. I could easily create an email account that would be something like this KCØEM@someemailservice.com. Amateur radio operators generally have a second email account they use just for things related to our hobby using this format. The reason I haven’t created one is that I have an older call sign WA3WVT and that’s the one I use for my amateur radio account.
I hope this helps you. Using the comments helps everyone even though I try to answer all email questions in the comments section of the post they relate to. Comments?
