Can someone else use your screen name?
May 23rd, 2005 | 03:23 PM
#41
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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?
May 23rd, 2005 | 04:17 PM
#45
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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?
4totravel, do both of you inhabit the same body, by any chance?
May 23rd, 2005 | 04:28 PM
#48
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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 "preview my reply"
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...and "I" (capital "i" does not ressemble (exactly) "l" (lower case "L"...
...thus "4totravel" - - the imposter - - knows exactly what is going on...
...and everyone with an "l" (lower case "L" is at risk of this kind of impersonation.
Fodors needs to make the default font one that conatins serifs, so that "I" (upper case "i" can be distinguished from "l" (lower case "L" for all body text in posts (not just during entry or preview).
......and "I" (capital "i"
does not ressemble (exactly) "l" (lower case "L"......thus "4totravel" - - the imposter - - knows exactly what is going on...
...and everyone with an "l" (lower case "L"
is at risk of this kind of impersonation.Fodors needs to make the default font one that conatins serifs, so that "I" (upper case "i"
can be distinguished from "l" (lower case "L" for all body text in posts (not just during entry or preview).
May 23rd, 2005 | 04:31 PM
#49
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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!
*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!
!! LOL
May 23rd, 2005 | 05:51 PM
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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, "Lol" (but type it in all lower case) and "ioi" (but type the first and last letters as capitals). The ID "cigalechanta," 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..
If one designated person would like to try it to demonstrate, you can register two personas just for demonstration purposes, for example, "Lol" (but type it in all lower case) and "ioi" (but type the first and last letters as capitals). The ID "cigalechanta," 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..
