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To: Ian@SI who wrote (17422)	12/26/2000 12:07:56 AM
From: Anonymous	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

All you have to do is search for a Mr. Fun and that will eventually lead you to his old posts. If what you say is true about aliases then he hasn't changed his. But suppose he has two accounts, each one with a different handle, and then when he got himself in some hot water on this thread he just decided to stop posting under the Mr. Fun handle. Many people have more than one e-mail account, some with their IP and some with MSN and with other services. I would assume that when Silicon Investor was offering free sign-ups, anyone with more than one e-mail address could get more than one handle on here. To make it look like two different persons were signing up you just use John Doe for one "real" person and J. X. Doe as another. Depending on what other information you "fill" out on the registration form you can fudge things easily. I've never done it, however I know that it works that way. Some services on the web can discriminate and recognize home computers via "cookies," however, I'm not up enough on that high tech stuff to talk about things like that. I just know that its been done on other chat systems, etc. I do know one thing. My personal home computer has a habit of occasionally losing the correct date. I don't notice it and sometimes have trouble accessing some "secured" accounts I have. I start getting messages that the "Certificate is out of date." I would be emailing these accounts saying that I couldn't get on and they'd be sending me instructions to pick another "handle" and "password." I would download another so called up-to-date certificate and I'd still have trouble accessing. Finally I saw that my date was way out of whack...maybe it was saying that I was back in the year 1985 or maybe it was saying that I was somewhere out in the future with a date like the year 2020 when all the time the certificates are usually only good for a short period...maybe somewhere between 1999 and 2003 or something like. They periodically update them and you have to download a new one to keep current. Now that I realize that my computer's glitch of losing the current date every once in awhile, I check it more often.........ANON