Lawless said:
But Mod2, I still have doubts about what might be behind (on purpose or not!) the request for the identification of the "café"!!!..
I already exposed (above) the reasons behind my request, and many posters rehashed that in other, simpler words. Kinda simple in my book.
Lawless said:
Delation is still delation in my books!!!...and it worries me!!!
Form the Hyperdictionary - Delation: (Law) Accusation by an informer.
There is no delation here because there is no accusation whatsoever. Some members simply posted from known Internet Cafés and kindly wrote in their post where it was from. It just helps identifying the Cafés, that's all.
As with any web site on the internet, some records logs are kept for every post on MERB as to where the post is from. It's just the way it is. Whoever doesn't want the moderators to know where they are posting from should simply restrict from posting whatsoever.
By the way, for those who might be worried by the above statement (re: logs), please note the following:
1) Many IP adresses are dynamically assigned and can therefore not be tagged to an individual or a company at first glance.
2) All the handles on MERB are kinda "anonymous" and tagged to a simple email adress. There is no simple way to get down to a live invidual.
3) The ONLY WAY to track a post to a live individual is to have a sub-poena sent to the ISP asking them to disclose who was the IP address assigned to on a given date and time. Unless you do something very nasty (like blackmailing or sending threatning PMs to someone - ex: Alicia lately), this is not going to happen.
Hope this clarifies.
M2