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However, they've discovered a way to track MAC ID whatever that is.

I saw a log from them once where a provider had logged in on another provider's computer and they banned them both.

There's a way!

I am a proponent of ONE handle only.

Simply false. MAC ("Media Access Control") is a unique identifier assigned to the physical network interface in your computer, usually your ethernet card. This ID does *NOT* ever get included in the IP (Internet Protocol) packets that make up web and email traffic. It is sipmly not possibly to track an Internet user by MAC address. If you have a link to the contrary I will be very surprised, but perhaps you can post the exact info you saw and we can explain why it's wrong or you're misunderstanding it.

But banning by IP or MAC is not "fair" if say, there are multiple RB users within a "company". Let's take an example of a 50 user company. They will typically share the same IP address (since they are NAT'd (masked) from the outside world). Taking that example into mind, say you have 3 RB users (who don't even know each other) within that company, and one of the three users is an asshole, that say, abuses the RB system with multiple handles for shilling, attack dogs, bad posts, etc. etc., then it's not fair to the two other "good" RB'ers if that IP address gets banned, right? Now if there's a way to install a "cookie" to reveal the ultimate MAC of the end-user's computer being used, now that would just be dandy mandy. From that stand-point, I may actually consider supporting spyware'ing that asshole's computer.

Which brings me to a pet peeve of mine and the subject of this discussion -- these abusive, delusional, needy, insecure, ball-less, pathetic, stalking, super-shilling, multi-faced, etc, etc, you name it, multiple handled RB users -- I mean, how pathetic can one be? Even threading to their own posts sometimes with counter or supportive arguments? Don't they have a life outside of this? Son-of-a-skanky-ass-bitch, right?

Yeah... these multi-faced, multi-handled RB cowards really pisses off sometimes.

-Oryx

I have DSL here and I plain old don't know enough to get myself in trouble with computers. My earlier comments were based on information I got from another member of THAT board.

So, I woke up this morning and signed on to that site with a new user name, password etc. and navigated around a bit.

Had a cup of coffee, signed off and went for a drive on the Coast where I live.

Came home, signed back on and found myself banned again.

You figure it out.

How they do it is a mystery to me, but again, I've seen a log sent by email to the provider I mentioned earlier who is a favorite on this site Laura De Leon, who lived in Virgina and at the time. Paola Rey was visiting her and signed on to her log in on Laura's computer and they both were banned. Later after a number of emails they were re-instated. I don't know how they do it, but I do know why they are so anal retentive.

CONTROL.

decriminalize the medical marijuana movement.

When initially creating my logins, I decided it would keep me honest, as a reviewer and commenter, if my handles were the same.

As many of us know from our online past, assume that anything you write will be viewed by all (SOs excluded, here at least..).

May we all be Saints today, my son.