camembert wrote:

If I wanted to write to AOL about Michael (which I do - I don't suppose it'll do much good, but it's worth a go), what info would they want apart from an account of his activities? I'm guessing they'd need IP numbers he's used in conjunction with edit times, is that right?

Yep. They will know who was assigned which of their IPs at certain times. That is unless those cheap bastards at AOL use proxies (in which case many people would be using the same IP at the same time - IIRC how proxies work).

I was half-way through writing a message to them before I realised all I had identity-wise was "it's some guy who calls himself 'Michael', or 'NOFX', or 'Weezer', or...".

That may be a problem if unique IPs are not assigned to individual users on at least a dial-up session basis.

Incidentally, I don't think that my writing to AOL (assuming that I do indeed write) should stop other people writing to them as well.

Please post your message somewhere and I'll help make a general boilerplate for use in these types of situations. Then it will be easy for dozens of us to complain. That should get some attention.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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