I really, really wish others would follow your example.

Your mention of Usenet reminds me that over the years I've searched everywhere for a writer I knew on the newsgroups. We were on a mailing list together for years, and then one day she and her email address were just GONE. I never knew her real name, and no one on the list or anywhere else knew how to find her. I still think of her decades later and wonder how and what she's doing.