Fodors Registration?
Apr 1st, 2002 | 08:34 PM
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I guess "we" never defined IP for sydney - - it stands for Internet Protocol (but sort of also means "point-of-presence", I think) - - it's a unique 12 digit number that defines the nde where you are connected to the internet. The IP of a message would never change - - it's like the postmark of where a message originated. some of us might have dozens of them. I have more than one ISP, and they have multple dynamic IP's and I also use from many other loications, depending on where I happen to be - - mltiple hospitals, university and library locations, plus I travel a certain amount. So there might be messages from me - - as Rex or as "xxx" with the same IP as the one I am hooked to right now - - from very diffferent points in time - - or they might be different four different times today alone. Tracking a person's presence on the Internet can be very easy - - or - - very hard - - to be complete.<BR><BR>And it remains pretty easy to be anonymous on the internet. The public library user is the simplest example I can give.<BR>
Apr 1st, 2002 | 08:45 PM
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I'm not a troll, but I'm uncomfortable using my real name and e-mail address. People can track you down so easily through the internet these days. I love fodors.com and even though trolls are irritating I feel it's worth it to put up with them to protect my anonymity.
Apr 1st, 2002 | 09:04 PM
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It's also very easy to post anonymously and have multiple IDs on boards that require registration. It all boils down to how much monitoring (censorship) a board has. All boards have lots of info that is questionable, so you just have to filter through it. If trolls bother you, then go to a highly censored board. Trolls don't bother me at all, since the bottom line is there is a TON of info in the archives here that I can't find anywhere else. The only negative about this board is that the search indexes aren't updated often enough.
