For those who aren't aware...

This topic was created in the Miscellaneous forum by phoenix_rising on Thursday, November 7, 2002 and has 26 replies.

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@phoenix_rising
21 Years5,000+ Posts

You may take or leave this information; care about it or not. But, because I would want someone to tell me if I didn't know, here you go.

If you have had a conversation with anyone with the following handles:

Suzy-Q
Aqua-2
C-B
Your Mother
Sunflower
sloane
romeclone
LS
Wonderbox
Got2bGood
deepbluecalm
TM1
Nice_Slut
cj7
abstrusely

...then you have only been talking to one person, who posed as all these different people for at least the last 7 months.

I only alert you to this because I believe in the truth, and through my research as well as others', this has been discovered as the truth.

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@Star
21 Years1,000+ Posts

Yeah, I guess that is what bugged me the most...I really liked some of them too and thought they were real!! It still blows me away! Oh well...

I am grateful that it wasn't even more!!

I also came up with:

Scorpio Girl
Free
Lady-virgo

in addition to the ones you listed Phoenix...but, the above personalities didn't post often...

Thanks for the list, Phoenix.

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@dxpnet
dxpnet account21 Years500+ Posts

I'm still trying to determine if the IP addresses are 100% reliable in determining if one person has posted under all of these usernames. Suzy-Q has told me that she has only posted under these usernames: SUZYQ, WONDERBOX, YOUR MOTHER, SUNFLOWER.

It could be possible that someone IP addresses are being reused by people's ISP. If this is the case then some people are being wrongly accused.

I only bring this up because I can't guarantee the IP address - username connection as being 100% reliable. And I don't want more problems to arise out of people being falsely accused.

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@phoenix_rising
21 Years5,000+ Posts

I don't know, I'm confused...whenever I click on ANYONE else's IP number, it shows me the last 100 messages they've written, and only ONE username. Which makes sense. But when I clicked on suzy-q's IP number, it showed all sorts of different usernames (all of which I listed) for the last 100 posts she wrote. So I really don't know what's going on, and I'm not a computer expert so I don't "get" the whole IP #/ISP deal.

I definitely spoke too soon, but I just said what my computer was telling me. I wasn't trying to incriminate people randomly. I still don't know what to believe.

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@dxpnet
dxpnet account21 Years500+ Posts

I think it's very likely that not every user with the same IP address is the same person. From the AOL website:

Q. Can I use the IP address of the request to track a member's access to my site?

A. No. Because AOL uses proxy servers to service the requests made by members, webmasters see the IP address of the gr server, not the DAHA of the member in their web site log files. The problem with trying to use the IP address to track access is that there may easily be multiple members assigned to a proxy server. All of the member requests would appear to be coming from one member if you assumed a relationship between member and IP address. In addition, members may be reassigned to a different proxy server during a session. See also Network Info.

(http://webmaster.info.aol.com/faq.html)

I might remove the IP address information from the pages since it is causing everyone a lot of confusion.

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@phoenix_rising
21 Years5,000+ Posts

Hmmm. I'm so not good with all this computer lingo stuff.

"I think it's very likely that not every user with the same IP address is the same person."

I have to disregard the rest of your message because I simply don't understand it...but you are the computer man dxp so whatever you say, I will take as fact. After all, you know what you're talking about more so than any of us, including me. 🙂

Again, my apologies to anyone wrongly accused by me.

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@phoenix_rising
21 Years5,000+ Posts

If this has in fact all been a mistake (with the exception of the four confirmed aliases), then I'm glad; that's what everyone was hoping. Maybe we can just make it so that everyone has to submit an email address to dxp? And then posters would only be able to have one username, thus avoiding all this...confusion. Just a thought.

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@phoenix_rising
21 Years5,000+ Posts

cj7, forgive me, I'm sort of in defense-mode right now, I need to stop that...what's done is done, it's time to trust people again (speaking about myself of course). Sorry about that.

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@Luz
21 Years1,000+ Posts

its okay phoenix, ppl make mistakes *pets* in your case, you didnt know what to believe since there is someone who IS definitely going around being one person, so its not entirely your fault for being so paranoid

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@Cortica
21 YearsGemini

Just out of interest, whenever I log in, I click on the IP number that appears next to my name (it changes every time) and often posts that other people have written will come up under that IP number.

So...IP numbers change and sometimes you get the same one as another person.

I don't see how you can avoid looking like a Nazi phoenix - this kind of thread would be offensive enough even if you did get the information right. Who made you board monitor? What gives you the right to post inflmatory information promoting the exclusion of certain members? How would you feel if someone put this post up and included you in the list? Did you even stop to think in the midst of your self-righteous fervour for 'truth' that maybe, just maybe, you might be way off the mark.

An apology in advance means nothing - next time, have a bit of a think before you go shooting your mouth off.

Cheerio 🤢gt;

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@Star
21 Years1,000+ Posts

I see your point Cortica..but, did you read my GHASTLY post where I thought everyone...er...not quite everyone...but, many people had listed "Star" as their name on their profile! LOL! Damn me, anyway! Now it is hilarious to me...since I know that there was a prob with the profile page...but, at the time...I thought it was a ploy against me...initiated by Suzy Q! God, I was paranoid and idiotic!! I am the one who kinda got this whole paranoid ball rolling...
Sorry.. didn't mean to be a crazy woman...but, sometimes it happens! Forgive me?

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@phoenix_rising
21 Years5,000+ Posts

Thank you, "mommy cortica". What are you, like four years older than me? LOL. It's funny that the most snooty, self-righteous, stuck-up person on these boards would say such things about me. Oh well, "it takes one to know one". And by the way, there were several others who did the same exact thing I did, before I did it, just not in such an "organized" way I guess (posting the message on every single board). Look around; you'll see. But, I guess it will be me that takes all the heat for everything. Whatever. And, I wasn't apologizing to you, so you can take your comment about how it means nothing, and shove it where the sun doesn't shine, thanks. Here's an idea: butt out when the post has nothing to do with you.

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@phoenix_rising
21 Years5,000+ Posts

P.S.

I move to strike all the names off my list (can't remember if I already said that here or not), except for sq/wonderbox/your mother/sunflower, and to all who I have wrongly accused, I am so, very sorry to you. I suck.