my bad. indeed i see your point now. since there's no extra suggestion in your post, i wrongly made that assumption. But nobody is talking about just having a

my bad. indeed i see your point now. since there's no extra suggestion in your post, i wrongly made that assumption. But nobody is talking about just having an alias. the idea of anonymity is to have an effective alias. be it writing a fake name to using Tor. Whatever is necessary to make it happen. in the past, pen-named authors also had to take extra precautions to take the manuscripts to the publisher. it wasn't a sure deal back then, it's not now.