Gohrus said:
}ez064842@veni.ucdavis.edu (Remington Stone) wrote in message
}> Of course, now that I have a completely disposable account that isn't tied
}> to me by credit card number or address or anything, well, except this
}> post, it's quite tempting to experiment with all these macro programs and
}> showeq I keep hearing about, so I may manage to get it banned all by my
}> little own self. :)
}Except for that you logged into it from your computer at home, or your
}computer at work or wherever... with the same IP as your normal
}account, or at a location that can be correlated to you. The
}connection between you and the "anonymous" account is already in their
}database.
}Now, from what I hear, you have to REALLY screw up for them to ban
}related accounts, but just to let you know, if they wanted to they
}already know.
}(By the way I work at an ISP and we track people down like this from
}time to time when we get a court order. If we have the IP in our
}network and an exact time, we can always tell you where the connection
}came from. And I bet you SOE is storing the IPs that people log in
}from.)

Yeah, I bet they do, too, which is part of why I'll probably never
actually get around to playing with macro programs much.  It's a lesser
consideration, though, compared with "Is Xylobot really worth $20 to me?"
and "Am I really going to want to invest the time it looks like it'd take
to get this set up and working?"  Especially since I'd want to set up a
second computer to run all that stuff on, and that'd be messy... Probably
require buying a new video card at the least.  And then I have to actually
write or adapt the auto-foraging script...  I think I'd rather spend
the time actually playing EQ, all in all. :)

I wouldn't worry overmuch about the IP thing, though.  My ISP gives me a
new dynamically assigned IP address every time I reboot the computer.  So
in order to ban associated accounts on that basis, they'd probably have to
take out everyone using that block of IPs, which, with sbc yahoo being a
major provider, could be quite a few.  And just to be thorough, sbc yahoo
provides free dialup modem access to DSL users, so main account stays on
DSL, cleverly macroed account goes to the dialup pool.  Presto!  We're in
different places, and my GF bitches at me because her friends say the
phone's busy all the time. :)

For the moment, Mike Vance's old account is therefore relegated primarily
to the role of being an insta-newbie to form a raid with so I don't get
hosed by the Trivial Loot Code.  But I did manage to forage up a morning
dew! :)

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