"hummingbird" wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:53:04 +0100 'Sebastian G.'
> wrote this on alt.comp.freeware:
>
>>hummingbird wrote:
>>> Suffice it for me to say that the contents of one's headers can be
>>> used by stalkers and troublemakers against you.
>
>>How so?
>
> Well you'll just have to accept my word on that Sebastian because
> I'm not going to post stuff here which is of use to the small group
> of sick stalkers we have on <alt.comp.freeware>. These people only
> have to find one header in several posts that match, to declare they
> were posted by the same person.

So what?

> Now, you and I may think that is
> ridiculous and is only trivial or circumstantial evidence, but on
> ACF it's more than enough for the dorks to declare proven guilt and
> to accuse that person of sockpuppeting or spoofing

Who cares?

> to smear their name and discredit them.

What tosh. Any regular poster keeps the same handle and is judged by
the articles they post, not by trolls.

> Thus, it can be useful for a person to be able to deliberately
> manipulate their headers to *deter* stalker attack and to retain
> a level of anonymity.

I always post as "Ant" but you know nothing about me apart from the
ISP I use.