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amyk 
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Posted: 14 December 2004 at 2:50am |
Hi, don't know if anyone can help me on this, but if you register on a forum under a different username, password and email address, can the administrator/webmaster still link you to your old one?
many thanks, 
AK
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Mart
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Posted: 14 December 2004 at 2:54am |
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Yes, your IP address is logged so the webmaster can cross reference them
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Posted: 14 December 2004 at 1:45pm |
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thanks mart. is there any way an ip address can be hidden?
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Gullanian
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Posted: 14 December 2004 at 1:54pm |
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IP address can be shared accross thousands of users, which means that
cross referencing can produce results that aren't quite accurate, IP
address can also change (when I had 56k the IP seemed to change every 5
minuites).
If someone wanted to hide themselves and change their IP as I understand is illegal at the moment.
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Posted: 14 December 2004 at 2:36pm |
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Going through a proxy server is not illegal, but if you are using it to piss off a forum administrator it might be
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Posted: 14 December 2004 at 4:28pm |
ok, final question: - do web administrators usually bother about someone having several ID's, as long as they are not doing any harm, and is there any sort of law which stops administrators contacting other users on the same IP address and informing them that there are lots of different user names on the address?
eg: man and wife both use same forum, wife logs on as different user to have some fun, will husband find out???  |
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Posted: 14 December 2004 at 7:23pm |
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Up to the webmaster
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Posted: 15 December 2004 at 4:08am |
 amyk wrote:
ok, final question: - do web administrators usually bother
about someone having several ID's, as long as they are not doing any
harm, and is there any sort of law which stops administrators
contacting other users on the same IP address and informing them that
there are lots of different user names on the address?
eg: man and wife both use same forum, wife logs on as different user to have some fun, will husband find out??? |
So... are you looking to cheat on your spouse or are you trying to find out if they are cheating?
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