I have allowed anonymous posting of comments on this blog. So far, I think it's working out well - we've had very few problems with spam, etc. However, one drawback of this is that it's very difficult for one commenter to respond to another commenter, since just about everyone is named "Anonymous."
I am asking all commenters, if you chose to use the "anonymous" option to post your comment, that you still create a signature for your comments and just put it in at the end. You can make up anything, "Susie J." "Fatboy" or whatever. This makes it much easier to have a dialogue within our comments section, and allows our regular readers to start identifying our different participants.
Thanks.