quote: PIFFLE! unquote...

yes, MUDCAT indexes it's own posts, and you CAN look at every post Bill D has made WITHIN MUDCAT...but if I hadn't made my address, real name and email easily accessible, you couldn't find me....

the only way to trace a person who posts in a chat room is to find the IP number(which is easily hidden if you need to), then convince that ISP that you have a VERY good reason to know who posted at that time..(court order)..then spend weeks as the ISP tried to sift thru millions of relevant log-ins...etc...

READ MY LIPS...there is no " software used to monitor where a person goes on-line, and the information trail they leave.", except for certain cookies and THEY don't identify YOU...they only establish a pattern.....

it is fine to be aware of security...I do it myself with two firewalls which kill cookies and javascripts. But it is ludicrous...let me repeat..LUDICROUS... to imagine that you could be 'found' thru any postings to the Mudcat if you choose not to...unless you simply leave clues.

Oh, crap....why DO I bother!...I used to know a college professor who was convinced the Psych. Dept. was doing illegal experiments on him...including pissing in his car battery!..He was always polite to me, but made it clear he didn't really trust even me!...Died believing *they* were after him! (His name was Hugh Walpole..wrote a book called "Semantics"

so,my dear Turnip.....you have never said WHY anyone might want to 'trace' you, you have only expressed concern that they 'might'...I repeat ..PIFFLE.....I give up...I surrender...there IS no way to reason with you, and you DO NOT CARE to know the truth of it all.....you are happy in your carefully constructed coocoon of anonmity, which no one wanted in anyway.

you want more discussion? Get an anonymous web-based email like Hotmail,(you DON'T have to give a real name or address) and email me.. extree@erols.com..(you won't...but...)

*sigh*