How to choose your on-line screen name ?

A new study out of the University of Maryland shows that female usernames in a chatroom receive 25 times more threatening or sexual private messages than male or neutral usernames. The obviously female screen names in the study were subjected to 163 malicious messages per day. The harassment ranged from the relatively benign ("feeling horny?") to thoroughly unsavory. The authors advise parents to tell their kids to create gender-ambiguous screen names.