Not keen on the idea myself. I only have my first name listed now, and do that due to a really unpleasant online incident a while ago that became a lot more realworld than I would like. It also involved the law and a major PITA for me due to the unstable personality of the other party involved. So I prefer to control what personal info of mine becomes public and what doesn't.
 
Generally, I'm happy to participate here and make myself know to people on an individual basis, but I don't use my full name anywhere online and having it under my username would be a serious disincentive to participate further.
 
Spam is also a 'bit' of a concern, but the email addy's I use on sites like this are disposable; once I start getting hit, I delete them and make up another.

Brett,
 
As I understand it, each post would have whatever you entered in the Full Name field-- i.e. in your case it would contain Brett, no last name.
 
That is the thing that makes this whole thing manageable, as far as I'm concerned-- you can enter as much (or as little) information as you'd like/are comfortable with, and that is all that will ever show up.
 
Don't want your email exposed? Fine! Mark it as non-public, and it won't show up.  Don't want anything more than your first name showing? Easy-- just put your first name only in the Full Name field.
 
Et cetera, et cetera-- As far as I know, you aren't required to publicly reveal anything about yourself to be a member here; the proposed change alters that not at all.
 
Brad

Either way is fine with me..it may blow my cover tho !
I'd trust the Alembicans to protect me.
 
Gary

No problemo amigos!
 
Wilfred

I don't see a problem showing full names. If the baddies want you they can always find some way to spam you no matter what.
Howierd

It's nice to see musicians communicating...there must be a correlation, between the desire to play music and to communicate well(just an observation).
 I like the first name idea ,
peace
kris