>> 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).

Hmm. Maybe...

>> 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.

More like, I'm too stupid to hide the information.

So Greats said that the greatest knowledge is in knowing that you know 
nothing. Ah, the sweet sting of being reminded. :-/

> 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.

...remind me to NEVER piss you off! o_O

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