Could you post to the ML anonymously? No, AFAIK. Sure you could, as you state, register under a bogus name, and some people did, but few did in practice. While 1/3 of the threads (unscientific, via GMail searches) have at least someone who did (apparently). I suspect because they could, not because they wanted. At the very least, please disable anonymous temporarily until the bug of anonymous-posting from logged-in people goes away please. My $0.02...