On Wed, 06 May 2009 19:28:24 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> But I need to pay money to send you an invite. ;-)
>> 
>> No, I have never paid anything. Unless things changed recently. I think
>> there is a suggestion that you do, but that may be just to fool those
>> that not regularly work with computers.
> 
> Well, *some* profiles you can just connect with, others demand you pay a
> fee. I think it's a configuration option somewhere in the account
> settings, but whatever...

I think that's a feature of one of the paid accounts - to limit the 
requests coming in to people who only know your e-mail address (for 
example).

> Carefully hiding my real name and my employer... and yet, it turns out
> to be trivial for anybody who actually cares to discover this
> information. (By *multiple* routes.) How precarious life is. :-/

Well, to people who talk to you regularly, you've given enough clues.

Years ago, I managed to track down a deadbeat dad who'd gone AWOL (with 
one of his kids) from the US military.  His fatal mistake?  Having a 
CompuServe account with a membership in a D&D gaming forum that used his 
character name - a unique name (not something like "Caspian", but 
something that he'd created) that a friend of mine who gamed with him 
knew.

Turned it over to the authorities, and his ex-wife got to see her 
youngest son for the first time in something like 10 years...to this day 
she doesn't know that I was the one who found him.

Jim

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