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Marilyn May 23rd, 2005 03:23 PM

I must be missing something here. If I tell you now that I am "Marilyn," then I post in 5 minutes and tell you that I am not the "original" Marilyn but a different Marilyn, using the same screen name, what makes you believe me rather than think I am just lying? Why do we think there are 2 people with the same screen name at all, rather than just one person who is seriously yanking our chains?

Scarlett May 23rd, 2005 03:34 PM

I don't believe you really are the Real Marilyn. In fact, I think someone should have lunch with you tomorrow and see some ID :D

cigalechanta May 23rd, 2005 03:36 PM

And bring that handsome, interesting husband of yours :)

pandora May 23rd, 2005 03:42 PM

4totravel,
Are one or both of you suggesting that Fodors' database contains a violation of UNIQUE KEY constraint?

Marilyn May 23rd, 2005 04:17 PM

LOL, I am indeed having lunch tomorrow with a fodorite, but the handsome, interesting Phil Flash will not be accompanying me. (However, he is thrilled with the compliment, cigale!)

4totravel, do both of you inhabit the same body, by any chance?

Scarlett May 23rd, 2005 04:19 PM

"4totravel, do both of you inhabit the same body, by any chance?"....

<i>Maybe only on Odd or Even days and this is an Odd day :)
</i>

janis May 23rd, 2005 04:23 PM

&quot;4totravel, do both of you inhabit the same body, by any chance?&quot;

Or do you use the same computer? Could be one 4totravel might have a REALLY bratty friend/spouse/child . . . . . . .

rex May 23rd, 2005 04:28 PM

When you post a reply, your screen name is shown in a font which includes serifs (like Courier or Times Roman) - - the same is true for the body of the text, during entry of the text (also during &quot;preview my reply&quot;)...

...and &quot;I&quot; (capital &quot;i&quot;) does not ressemble (exactly) &quot;l&quot; (lower case &quot;L&quot;)...

...thus &quot;4totravel&quot; - - the imposter - - knows exactly what is going on...

...and everyone with an &quot;l&quot; (lower case &quot;L&quot;) is at risk of this kind of impersonation.

Fodors needs to make the default font one that conatins serifs, so that &quot;I&quot; (upper case &quot;i&quot;) can be distinguished from &quot;l&quot; (lower case &quot;L&quot;) for all body text in posts (not just during entry or preview).

dsm22 May 23rd, 2005 04:31 PM

Scarlett, it does always seem like an
*odd* day around this board!

I think that someone must have watched
Cybil (sp) over the weekend.

If not the split personality, then it is someone signing in on the same computer. Boy, you guys better hope my husband never does that to me. Maybe I better hope he doesn't, he would probably get me kicked off! :)

dsm22 May 23rd, 2005 04:39 PM

Hey, maybe it's travdis' alter egos.

I might get my self into trouble. Never mind my husband.

Scarlett May 23rd, 2005 04:44 PM

LOL, dsm..
an old 4totravel thread about Speel Chacking has been topped btw.

Sybil? there are so many of them these days~sigh~ :)

dsm22 May 23rd, 2005 04:49 PM

I just looked at that thread too, we were all on the same wave length there.

Gotta wonder.

Scarlett May 23rd, 2005 04:53 PM

dsm, and I have CRS also :O !! LOL

sfowler May 23rd, 2005 05:00 PM

My dear 4totravel -- clicking on any post by either of your severely split personas yields the same list of posts -- hence there is only one of you physically -- mentally is not quite so clear. Basically you are full of it.

dsm22 May 23rd, 2005 05:10 PM

Scarlett, CRS was going to be my next thought, as well! This is too funny!


cigalechanta May 23rd, 2005 05:15 PM

So 4totravel is really Janus.

dsm22 May 23rd, 2005 05:39 PM

Cigalchanta, I am so tierd and loopy, that I read that twice, and it took 15 or 20 minutes for me to &quot;get&quot; it.


That was funny.

icithecat May 23rd, 2005 05:49 PM

You are all im'post'ers. I am the only one who is real. Hahahaha.
Every day in every way I get a little better......

cmt May 23rd, 2005 05:51 PM

Rex is correct. I just experimented, and what I found was exactly as Rex described. I promptly deleted the new ID after going through the motions and seeing how this could be done.

If one designated person would like to try it to demonstrate, you can register two personas just for demonstration purposes, for example, &quot;Lol&quot; (but type it in all lower case) and &quot;ioi&quot; (but type the first and last letters as capitals). The ID &quot;cigalechanta,&quot; for example, is vulnerable to this kind of copying by substituting a capital i for the lower case L, and maybe this is what happened in that situation where you said someone on AOL was using your ID..

cigalechanta May 23rd, 2005 05:56 PM

Hi, cmt, I don't know as I dont have AOL. I was emailed about the posts.
Why would anyone want to be other than who they are?


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