Let me give you a big shock.
Go to Google and type in some of our FReeper names.
Bingo. We're all already outed.
Evidently "MERCAT" is a celtic word for market. hmmm. I thought that I had made the name up. I've had this screen name for well over ten years. It's on my vanity license plate. But I'm old and don't give a fig whether I'm "outed."