Mary Fisher wrote:

If someone is afraid of retribution from someone s/he has offended then that
someone needs to live on an island, surrounded by high security fencing ...
no-one is untraceable from the determined searcher. That fact that it's made
easier by some official or unofficial agency is largely irrelevant.

I'm mildly astonished.

You really think the difference between some undersocialised criminal
with a grudge against someone involved in punishing them having to

(a) find out which office to go to, get down there, perhaps be seen on
CCTV or identify themselves, trawl through some printed material
organised in address-order rather than by name, versus

(b) enter a name in a free Web search

is 'largely irrelevant'? You don't think making (b) available would
significantly increase the incidence of such retribution? Gosh.

Stefek