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Originally Posted by SFSkol
This is a public Bulletin Board. All you need is a valid, at the time you create the account, email address. Anyone in the world can be a member. If someone does get kicked off all they need to do is start again with a different email address. A better and more interesting poll would be how many email accounts do you use.
Tracking by IP address for individual users? I often wonder how these crazy ideas get spread about how the internet works.
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There is software that allows people to be as many different names as they want, and several people have escaped detection on this forum by using it. I know of three posting right now, on this forum, in the last twenty four hours who have gone through two, three, more names. Several because of heated political set-to's and some because they can appear to have more than one person in support of their wacky and extreme and usually mean ideas and attitudes. There are MANY clearly made up names on the other unmentionable online news.
People say, and I must respect their views, that giving up their real identity opens them to identity theft and that is indeed serious. I think that hiding behind a screen name (or several) allows people to say things they never would, or could say to another human in person.
Those are my views.
Grace Gantner