Sorry M, but please explain how, by saying you knew someone, using an alias, would they know the vast majority of people's real name? Beyond a handful of posters, everyone's completely anonymous. It's not China!!
You started by asking if anyone here had broken the rules.
[MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] has given plenty of examples on here of how people really are nowhere near as anonymous as they’d like to be. We all leave digital footprints.