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Cayo Hueso:
Please.  No one is going to sue you (at least not successfully) for what you post here.  My God people.
Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic
for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has
happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to
the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail,
there will be anarchy throughout the world.

Daniel Webster
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ottawa5:
Thanks for the info on the lawsuit, it was the first I've heard of it, and it may help explain why some people post anonymously.

I don't know if posting anonymously is a total guarantee of not being traced, however, I've read elsewhere in a completely different context that the FBI and some other police agencies have methods that, while more indirect and costly, can trace the source of messages that could, in the past, not be traced.  I think it's technology that has to do with terrorism surveillance.  But it is definitely not an area where I have any competence at all.

It doesn't affect me since I never do things anonymously but I've seen anonymous posts at this site that talk about such things as assault rifles and karma and going after old school personnell and even their children.  May just be talk but I would not be surprised if this kind of stuff was being looked into and is a factor in the lawsuit you refer to.

Does anyone, who unlike me, does have a clue about computers, know the scope of the detection methods now available to track down the source of anonymous messages?

Anonymous:

--- Quote ---"Please.  No one is going to sue you (at least not successfully) for what you post here.  

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Well with CEDU there are already enough cases against them that they can't really call you slanderous . I think that case with Ginger (the site owner) involves a facility that claims it is clean.

Anonymous:

--- Quote ---"Thanks for the info on the lawsuit, it was the first I've heard of it, and it may help explain why some people post anonymously.

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And pray tell, what is the difference between "Anonymous" and "ottawa5"??? They both seem pretty anonymous to me.

ottawa5:
This is what comes of working on two computer screens at once, when you are really, really a computer klutz.. of course it is me.  

People tell me my style of writing, which developed from attending a very correct and grammar-driven school up there in Canada, is definitive, even without the apparent ability to always remember to enter the proper info when I post, so that's helpful at least in keeping plumb and square on standing behind for what I say.

But the questions of anonymity and tracing methods are of great interest, as is the very recent post pertaining to what is the scope of  "freedom of speech".  

There are in fact limitations to such freedoms: issues of "shouting fire in a crowded theater", the ever growing exception for what might be construed in a variety of ways as "terroristic threats", and specific or semi-specific threats to do harm to a person or group of persons.  As well as the idea of conspiracy to bring any of these things about, by, say, allowing them to be posted on your web site.

I don't know how any of these relate to the suit that someone said concerns this site. Perhaps someone else does. I do know that it costs a lot to go to court even if you aren't found guilty, so it pays not to say dangerous, threatening things (I'm not talking about profanity, rudeness, vulgarity, I'm talking about threats, even made broadly).

Could anyone reasonable disagree with that?

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