"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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>>> (Mercifully, it's virtually impossible to determine who an IP address 
>>> belongs to...)
>>
>> Why would that be?
>
> ...because every minute of every hour, hundreds of thousands of people 
> connect to a given ISP and get assigned new IP addresses purely at random?

IPs are not given out at random.  Each ISP has a range that they are allowed 
to assign. The IP address can be tracked back to the ISP. From there, 
depending what records the ISP keeps, they can probably tell what username 
was usign that IP at that time.

If they were given at random, there would be IP conflicts

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