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[Samalander]

[Erik Mesoy]

[Reiver]

That'd be Samalander. ^.^

This group was origionally a patchwork of players who all wanted to game but none of them could make the required gametime.

As for IP tracking... that's going to be a problem. AFAICT, that's pretty much how PHPBBs work, isn't it? Which means Nightstar would have the exact same problem? Troubling.

What does it take to have an international tunnel? Can such things be Arranged by others, or is it a huge headache?

[Erik Mesoy]

Do circumventors like www.owlheart.com and www.sourmind.com do anything about that?
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[AbuDhabi]

[jerith]

It's not an IP changing randomly every few minutes, it's every request going through a randomly chosen proxy server. There are ways around it: tunneling to a proxy in another country, hitting submit multiple times (10-20) until I get two consecutive posts from the same IP, etc. All of them are tedious and inconvenient.

It's not a standard feature -- if it exists at all, it's optional. As a security feature, it's supposed to stop session hijacking or something, but it doesn't really work. It's also done for load balancing if you need a single forum hosted on several machines -- the incoming IP (as opposed to the session id) is used to load-balance between a bunch of forum servers.

There aren't that many places that do the IP tracking thing. There are better solutions for pretty much everything it's useful for, but they tend to be more difficult and/or expensive.

[AbuDhabi]

I've posted a query on the support boards. They might know something.
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[Calli]

Any luck?

[AbuDhabi]

No. Nobody has answered yet.
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[AbuDhabi]

The admin says they'll ignore the last octet in phpBB 3. We can theoretically apply to upgrade our forum, but for that, we need our forum admin's password. Which we don't have, since our forum admin has been AWOL for a long, long time.
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[Attilla]

Can we change admins?

[AbuDhabi]

Well, hm, I don't think so. What I could do, with administrative powers, is change The Arbiter's forum password, and puppet his account for the move. There are a few problems with that, however:
- that's unethical,
- and also bastardly,
- and risky, being probably illegal in the face of the forum rules somehow.
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[Attilla]

Well, especially so since you've mentioned it here in the open for all, even the unregistered to see.

[Erik Mesoy]

What are our chances of tracking down The Arbiter and convincing/coercing him to give up some authority or else come back and post?

Also, what was the result of trying the proxies/circumventors? I might have a few more tricks up my sleeve depending on how those worked.
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[AbuDhabi]

[Attilla]

Now I can imagine you tracking him down physically, knocking on a door somewhere and shouting "Oy, you! Hand over your admin password!"

[Reiver]

"... who are you and how did you find my house, you crazy freak?"

[AbuDhabi]

I'll go check my 20+ archival CDs.
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[AbuDhabi]

FOUND!

I have his full name, home address, email and phone number.
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[ilovefire]

That's kind of creepy, AD.

I like the way you think.

[AbuDhabi]

It's moments like this that make obsessive archiving worthwhile.
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[Confusion]

[Reiver]

So, uh, any luck with the newfound spy intel?

[AbuDhabi]

First we need to establish who's going to send him a letter?
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[Reiver]

I would happily do so, except that he'd have no idea who I am? Ditto phonecall.

(Which country, idly?)