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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (67)	12/13/1998 7:47:00 PM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Respond to of 242

Cheeky, Using a proxy (as you pointed out) is one of the ways to destroy the trail. But the vast majority of users won't and don't do it. As far as keeping the packet trail, I used to work for a large community college district. We routinely backed up and archived all of the external data transmissions. Not a problem. We could routinely find addresses and track them back to a specific user account, no sweat. We couldn't tell you who was at the keyboard, but we most certainly could find your account and the specific port from where the transmission began. And so can most other sites including your ISP (if they wanted to). These things are routinely logged (and in most cases archived). The only question is how long do you keep them around for reference. When do they lose their value to the organization? Each site determines for itself when the information in the logs is no longer needed and then the media where the archived logs are stored gets recycled. KJC