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Old 08-21-04 | 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Biker Don
We have one computer so she would use the same one that I use. Does that mean she is just "out of luck"?
I can't speak for the moderators but I would imagine that since she would be registered seperately and thus have her own BF account, then she could just login seperately and gain access to the Women's Cycling forum under her login ID. Of course if people start scrutinising for gender masquerading based on IP address from a specific machine then she might get flagged. I for one think that type of tactic is faulty. In the past, with shared computing environments, such a suggestion would have been laughed at. In today's world where people normally think of a single IP address being bound to a single user, that false criteria is tempting to be used for filtering. I hope we don't make that mistake. I'm sure I'm not the only person who runs multiuser machines at home. My wife and many of my friends have accounts on my "user" machines and do a lot of their access from there and thus their source IP address would all be the same. To the uninitiated, it would appear they were multiple personalities of the same individual although that's not true.
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