In most things we discussed on the listserv (and in class), questions surrounding identification lurked -- that is, if identification is not the main issue staring right at us.
Identification specifically came up as an issue on the listserv at the beginning of the semester, we were asked to post questions, concerns and issues to the listserv that we wanted to see addressed during the rest of the course.
One student expressed interest in emoticons, specifically, where they came from and where they are going.
Emoticons were used very little on our listserv. I think this is because, like people said when I asked how they felt about the listserv, most of the time people were pontificating and not actually carrying on a dialog. Emotions were not necessary or even helpful to most posts that appeared on the listserv.
Another suggestion for class exploration was the actual boundaries between author and reader, and what happens with hypertext. Does identification become more difficult because the hierarchy is being broken down? Instead, perhaps identification becomes an entirely different concept from what it was before: in hypertext, the reader-writer labels are not as important to the understanding of the text as are the individuals involved and their perceptions.
This issue did not get dropped when class dialog got rolling.