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Article #5826Re: Are Gmail accounts limited to one per person ?
From: Alan Connor
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 11:09
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 11:09
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On comp.mail.misc, in <1117015937.458957.310980@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "wylbur37" wrote: > Is it true that Google doesn't want any one person to have > more than one Gmail account, and has cancelled the accounts of > anyone discovered to have more than one account? > > If this is true, how would Google find out? After all, two > accounts using the same IP address is not conclusive that > they're the same person. Most households have only one Internet > access line (and therefore one IP address), shared by everyone > in that household, each them entitled to their own personal > Gmail account. > No one is _entitled_ to a gmail account. They can give them to anyone they choose and withhold them from anyone they choose. A person is already getting a FREE account with tons of storage and many advanced features. To try to cheat them is just slimeball in the extreme. As for determining that the same person has more than one account? You are accessing a webserver to use your account, and that server logs whatever they want it to log, and can even get your username, etc., from your OS. I'd imagine that it would be a lot MORE information from a Windows box. So they have a little script running that compares the addresses each account on a particular IP sends and/or receives mail from. Too many similarities and you are busted. Doesn't have to be from the same IP. Just the same place. They can pin that down with a variety of software. Not a physical place, but an _electronic_ place on the phone or cable systems. Those electronic places all exist in real space too: Junction boxes and switching centers and the like. They can also measure the amount of time it takes a packet to get to a particular IP (interface) compared to that of one nearby in a known location. Trolls have very predictable patterns of behavior. As I refer to above, they always send mail/news/web-posts/ IRC input...from multiple aliases/servers/addresses to the SAME places, and the above script is but one that is guaranteed to catch them out. They really aren't very bright. That's why they regularly vanish for long periods when they cross the line. They THINK they are really clever, but the netadmins know who they are almost effortlessly, and can pick them off whenever they choose, letting all of the other netadmins know who it was they aced. They have shared databases that are not open to the public. Yes. They know who you are. Your name, address, phone number, just for starters. They know all or most of your aliases. And will soon know any new ones. You forget: They CONTROL those servers and routers. They have full access to logs that THEY create and the control of the businessmen who think they run them is minimal. Those suits don't know shit about computers. AC -- Please visit my home page: http://angel.1jh.com./nanae/kooks/alanconnor.html
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