My reasons for using an alias are not because I'm some secret insider in the
US Chess community, but because I think the Usenet is a pretty lawless, wild
place, and I believe it pays to protect one's identity from people one
doesn't, and can't, know.


Especially when one knows that one is going to be confrontational and irascible
with many of one's postings.

Dick Schneiders (an alias - I am not really a dick)