The Bobcat Nation

i been back and forth from here and egriz all morning and saw that there best friend is back! actually pretty funny. he was going by two names at the same time just today and everything he wrote, they deleted with an "off-topic" sign! it's really funny to me, but for the mods over there it's gotta just be getting frustrating dealing with this guy. maybe he'll come back and visit us!

Yeah wouldn't that be fun!?!?! I hope he doesn't come back here. Luckily we can ban IP Addresses if we have to, so it won't be that hard to take care of the issue.

I don't recall when this discussion took place, but I thought someone on egriz raised the issue of banning his IP address a while back, and the mods said they couldn't really do it because he uses one of the really common ones (like AOL or something similar), and they couldn't ban his address without also banning a lot of other users.

(I don't really know how this stuff works, so I may be a little off on this; I'm just saying what I think I remember...)

Grizlaw wrote:I don't recall when this discussion took place, but I thought someone on egriz raised the issue of banning his IP address a while back, and the mods said they couldn't really do it because he uses one of the really common ones (like AOL or something similar), and they couldn't ban his address without also banning a lot of other users.

(I don't know how this stuff works, so I may be off on this; I'm just saying what I think I remember...)

ya, someone asked the same type of question on egriz about this. asked if you need a new email address for every screen name. i dont know anything about computers either, but that would be crazy if this guy keeps track of all his screen names, passwords, AND email addresses!

Grizlaw wrote:I don't recall when this discussion took place, but I thought someone on egriz raised the issue of banning his IP address a while back, and the mods said they couldn't really do it because he uses one of the really common ones (like AOL or something similar), and they couldn't ban his address without also banning a lot of other users.

(I don't really know how this stuff works, so I may be a little off on this; I'm just saying what I think I remember...)

You're pretty much on the right track. There are some complications that can arise when a user is relatively low-tech.

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Suffice it to say that banning by ip address can be easily circumvented.