Post by vickibonet on Dec 16, 2006 7:55:04 GMT 10
Following the comeback of Ironguts his friends and impersonators
Q. How do you know who is really posting under that name?
A. You can never be really sure.
If our ever patient moderator Miriam, decided to publish the IP* (see definition below) address of each member and corresponding email, that would only point us in the direction of the poster. On this forum there are certain ‘handles’ that are used as open portals to those who know about them. I wish I could take credit for that great idea!
There is also the never-switched-off-computer-syndrome, very common nowadays and open for abuse by others in the household, family, and visitors (rehearsal time anyone?). This may have hilarious consequences, depending on the owner of the computer’s state of mind and if they have remembered to take their medication that day. I’ve been a ‘victim’ of this syndrome in the past on a few forums (including this one) and in other ways e.g. people sending silly emails from my various workstations. Most of these have been funny, thankfully.
In cyberspace it is easy to be hoodwinked. For me that’s half the fun.
*An identifier for a computer or device on a TCP/IP network. Networks using the TCP/IP protocol route messages based on the IP address of the destination. The format of an IP address is a 32-bit numeric address written as four numbers separated by periods. Each number can be zero to 255. For example, 1.160.10.240 could be an IP address.
Within an isolated network, you can assign IP addresses at random as long as each one is unique. However, connecting a private network to the Internet requires using registered IP addresses (called Internet addresses) to avoid duplicates.
The four numbers in an IP address are used in different ways to identify a particular network and a host on that network. Four regional Internet registries -- ARIN, RIPE NCC, LACNIC and APNIC -- assign Internet addresses from the following three classes.
• Class A - supports 16 million hosts on each of 126 networks
• Class B - supports 65,000 hosts on each of 16,000 networks
• Class C - supports 254 hosts on each of 2 million networks
The number of unassigned Internet addresses is running out, so a new classless scheme called CIDR is gradually replacing the system based on classes A, B, and C and is tied to adoption of IPv6.
(Source Webopedia 2006).
Q. How do you know who is really posting under that name?
A. You can never be really sure.
If our ever patient moderator Miriam, decided to publish the IP* (see definition below) address of each member and corresponding email, that would only point us in the direction of the poster. On this forum there are certain ‘handles’ that are used as open portals to those who know about them. I wish I could take credit for that great idea!
There is also the never-switched-off-computer-syndrome, very common nowadays and open for abuse by others in the household, family, and visitors (rehearsal time anyone?). This may have hilarious consequences, depending on the owner of the computer’s state of mind and if they have remembered to take their medication that day. I’ve been a ‘victim’ of this syndrome in the past on a few forums (including this one) and in other ways e.g. people sending silly emails from my various workstations. Most of these have been funny, thankfully.
In cyberspace it is easy to be hoodwinked. For me that’s half the fun.
*An identifier for a computer or device on a TCP/IP network. Networks using the TCP/IP protocol route messages based on the IP address of the destination. The format of an IP address is a 32-bit numeric address written as four numbers separated by periods. Each number can be zero to 255. For example, 1.160.10.240 could be an IP address.
Within an isolated network, you can assign IP addresses at random as long as each one is unique. However, connecting a private network to the Internet requires using registered IP addresses (called Internet addresses) to avoid duplicates.
The four numbers in an IP address are used in different ways to identify a particular network and a host on that network. Four regional Internet registries -- ARIN, RIPE NCC, LACNIC and APNIC -- assign Internet addresses from the following three classes.
• Class A - supports 16 million hosts on each of 126 networks
• Class B - supports 65,000 hosts on each of 16,000 networks
• Class C - supports 254 hosts on each of 2 million networks
The number of unassigned Internet addresses is running out, so a new classless scheme called CIDR is gradually replacing the system based on classes A, B, and C and is tied to adoption of IPv6.
(Source Webopedia 2006).
