Abstract: A method for moderating forums with anonymous but traceable contributions, comprising the steps of: establishing and conducting a moderated forum; receiving from any anonymous contributor an anonymous message and data identifying the contributor's actual user name and an anonymous designation; displaying the data identifying the actual user name and the anonymous designation only to at least one of a moderator and an administrator of the forum, the moderator having an opportunity to authorize or refuse publication of the anonymous message in accordance with rules of the forum and the at least one of the moderator and the administrator having an opportunity to attribute authorship of the anonymous message to the user for further reference; and, upon authorization of publication, publishing the anonymous message to the forum anonymously as to all other contributors.

Abstract: A method of enhancing network communications that provides conversion of data type, including language translation, between data producing and data consumers desiring to collaborate in a language or other data format different than the host language or data format. A conversion manager can receive producer data, sucn as topic threads, from a data provider and convert, either internally or through remote conversion engines, to a preferably preselected format for republication over the network to subscribing data consumers.