NIPS & double blind reviewing

[Grace Wahba]

Have you ever tried to write a paper without giving any 
clue to your identity? ("In xxx we proved yyy and in this 
paper we extend those results"). 
It can seriously distort the 
paper. Furthermore, many (most?) people submitting to 
NIPS put their paper on their home page and even circulate
it on this list, so a reviewer would have no trouble 
finding out who the author was by using, for instance, 
google. I fail to see any positives to blind  reviewing 
and a lot of negatives.