On Thu, 29 May 2008 09:35:39 +0200
Wolf Canis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> »Q« wrote:
> > Wolf Canis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Would know a message reach the ML with my Name but no signature or
> >> a different signature, could one relatively be sure about the fact
> >> that this particular message is not from the original "Wolf
> >> Canis".
> >
> > No, we'd have absolutely no way of telling whether or not it came
> > from the original "Wolf Canis". You could post using your usual
> > signature, telling us the other one wasn't from you, but we'd have
> > nothing to go on but your word. I think most of us /would/ take
> > your word for it, but I doubt the signatures make a difference in
> > that.
>
> That would mean that "Wolf Canis" is a bad boy and would have more
> than one signature, one for normal use and one or more for evil use.
> OK, if it's that what you mean, I understand it that way, then you
> are right. But I'm pretty sure that, if "Wolf Canis" comes with
> different signatures then it would be at least questionable and
> would probably lead to a ban, I think.
I'd support a ban in either that case (you pretending to be more than
one poster) or the other (another poster pretending to be you). But in
neither case do the signatures give us any more information than we
would otherwise have had about whether there's an imposter or not.
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»Q«
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