Yes, of course there is a lesson to be learned, here. Isn't there,
     almost always ? Our advice to you, for reasons illustrated by this
     story, is that you never post under your own name (*), if you must
     post on Usenet at all - and why would you want to ?

     Why not ? Because doing so opens you up to the possibility of abuses
     of your rights, that the system will do absolutely nothing to
     rectify. Besides which, it's not like Usenet has been a serious
     intellectual forum, at any time during the last few years, or shows
     any prospect of ever being one again. So, you're not going to be
     passing up an opportunity to promote your scholarly career, or other
     work as a writer, by posting anonymously. Nobody is going to the
     newsgroups looking for that sort of work, any more, who is much of a
     presence himself (outside, maybe, of a handful of the scientific and
     technical groups, which are barely holding on). So you have to ask
     yourself - who's going to see your work ?

     Who is going to comb through that mountain of refuse, to find the
     few diamonds in the rough, that still remain within it ?

(*) The only exception, offered with little confidence, might be that
    handful of scientific and technical groups, but even most of the
    sci.* hierarchy has long since ceased to see serious work, and
    the ones that remain, mostly function as disjoined Q & A sessions.

    I'd mention which, but I'm afraid that I'd get them trolled in the
    process, so shhhhhh ....