Re: Question about list members masquerading as someone else

[Spencer Dawkins <spencer_dawkins@yahoo.com>]

If you look back at the ASRG archives, they had a similar
situation a couple of months ago, and were looking at mail
headers for backup (the pop-up person was posting from the same
subnet as the lone voice in the wilderness). But I agree that
it's simpler to enforce civility than to prove that someone on
the Internet actually IS a dog...

Spencer

--- Avri Doria <avri@acm.org> wrote:
> In some ways it might not matter if the person is
> masquerading.  If she 
> or he is being disruptive and using personal invective, you
> probably 
> have sufficient cause to warn and then restrict from the list.
> 
> I would not in any case make a public list accusation of
> pretended 
> identity. Something like that would very hard to prove.
> 
> a.
> 
> On måndag, sep 15, 2003, at 15:14 Asia/Seoul,
> pregen@egenconsulting.com 
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I have a situation on my list where I am fairly sure someone
> has 
> > signed on with a fictitious name.  Not a problem really,
> lots of 
> > people do this.  However, in this case, this "new person" on
> the list 
> > is making comments defending a position and making comments
> like "you 
> > lie..." etc.  The real problem is this new person is
> defending the 
> > position that someone on the list can not get anyone else to
> agree to 
> > - and several of us are fairly sure that the "new person" is
> indeed 
> > the same person who had made the original position
> statement.
> >
> > Has anyone else run into this on their list?  If so, how did
> you 
> > handle it?  You can't come out on the list and say "hm, Mr.
> so and so, 
> > are you really who you say your are or are you an alias for
> ....." 
> >  This one is tricky and this person is now really causing
> the list to 
> > turn into a ugly and nasty mess.  Before I do what I have
> planned, I 
> > wanted to poll the other chairs first.  Don't you just love
> this 
> > non-paying stress jobs....8-(
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