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MaggieL · 08-15-2002, 09:37 PM

Well, there's all kinds of BS.

You see posts that mention things I (and a number of other people) wrote about and you're suspicious it's me, even though anybody who runs a Cellar search has all that information too.

I see posts that I know I didn't write, perhaps clumsily crafted to look like they came from me, and then somebody opens a thread in their own forum openly accusing me (with no more evidence than you or I have) of being the sockpuppet, and I develop my own suspicions.

Tony's client-string information is interesting, though...if I was going though an anonymizing proxy I probably wouldn't bother to hack the client string, even though in the past I've busted sockpuppets on mailing lists because they were using an obscure mail client that had a distinctive header.

So, if dham was in the same situation, I don't think he would bother with it either. For my money that suggests strongly that somebody else is responsible for that crap.

08-15-2002, 09:37 PM	#90
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	Well, there's all kinds of BS. You see posts that mention things I (and a number of other people) wrote about and you're suspicious it's me, even though anybody who runs a Cellar search has all that information too. I see posts that I know I didn't write, perhaps clumsily crafted to look like they came from me, and then somebody opens a thread in their own forum openly accusing me (with no more evidence than you or I have) of being the sockpuppet, and I develop my own suspicions. Tony's client-string information is interesting, though...if I was going though an anonymizing proxy I probably wouldn't bother to hack the client string, even though in the past I've busted sockpuppets on mailing lists because they were using an obscure mail client that had a distinctive header. So, if dham was in the same situation, I don't think he would bother with it either. For my money that suggests strongly that somebody else is responsible for that crap. __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."