What does Gransnet mean to you?

I suspect, rather than run, they were made to walk the plank.

It doesn't have to be an ex member though. As Wobbly explained some weeks ago, you can't come back if your IP address has been banned but there's nothing to stop an existing member having more than one username because you only need a different e-mail address from the one you are already using.

I think I've got that right.

Yes, I think that would be possible, and unless you made a pest of yourself, I doubt GN would check. But if you misbehaved, as this poster has, they might then check and ban both accounts. Risky.

But the other option is to create a new account from another ipaddress. This could simply be from anywhere there is a public hot spot, or as they suggested using a proxy server which hides you ipaddress.

The thread is what does Gransnet mean to you. I don't post every day,but that does not mean I don't pop in to read them. What it means to me is how very different we all are apart from being grans,then you could say that about every generation. There you go, another useless post from me.

Even more cowardly then.

Not you Corncob !!

Oh! So that's what they meant by using 'a proxy'...I did wonder.

I think this is a thread that would be better deleted, it is everything that we don't want on GN. Unpleasant without contributing anything.

I've just googled it but I'm really none the wiser.

A proxy server can either be a physical device or a service that sits between your router and the outside world. They are intended to prevent attackers gaining access to your data.

whatis.techtarget.com/definition/proxy-server

In simple terms think of it like a PO Box. You can send / receive mail, but no one knows who you are.

Was going to post but it's become hunt the poster again

I prefer your second explanation, Wobbly

If you really want to hide, you have multiple PO boxes, possibly hundreds all pointing to each other, this is roughly how the dark web works to prevent anyone tracing you. The dark web is considered by most as a criminal system, but by far the majority of the data using the dark web is because it is politically or professionally sensitive and needs to be safe from hackers.

Well it's all lost on me because I regard my laptop as a magic machine that can do all manner of amazing things when I log on.

Haven't a clue how it works.

The "Dark Web" all sounds very appropriate for Hallowe'en
I wonder if GNHQ know whether one is using a proxy server when registering with GN then?
Might it not arouse suspicions? This is only GN after all, not GCHQ so it sounds like a security level too far for the "ordinary" gran
Ah well, no doubt whoever it is will be back to taunt enlighten us.

I remember the last thread we had about trying to guess who someone was, I was "accused" of being "the vanished one" and this poster of whom I have seen nothing further, said horrible things to me; seems fishy to me.

The really amazing thing is that your laptop can only understand two conditions, on or off. Every programme etc you use is a collection of millions of ons and offs. (ie the binary system 1 or 0)

If you get my meaning ?

Fishy like a goldfish with big boobs?

WB The number of layers of interpretation/translation between the on/offs and the wondrous things that a computer can do are mind-boggling. It is as though there were a series of translators each passing on to the next their translation of what they have received from one language into another -
The sequences of on/ofs into a sort of non-flashing Morse code that gives sequences of numbers,
The sequences of numbers into definitions.
The sequences of definitions into instructions to do various simple things,
The sequences of simple actions into more complicated things.
The complicated things into displays on the screen.
The recognition of which key you have pressed and what it means, which is then passed back through all the translators and into more on-offs, which and the appropriate action taken.

A failure by any one of those translators/interpreters can jigger the whole thing - so it is a miracle that the damn machines work at all.

I once attended a seminar at Microsoft when they were launching Windows something or other. One presenter said that the engineers that design the processors do not understand how they will be used, it is not until the systems designers get hold of them that the magic unfolds. It seemed like a car designer designing a super-car without any idea how or what it could do.

However the "mystery", if such it is, reminds me of a past member who was frequently trying to tantalise us with cryptic utterances and accusations of conspiracies of silence. But she then of course "couldn't say any more" nudge, nudge, wink, wink, possibly trying to create an atmosphere of suspicion and conspiracy.
IMHO molehills should remain exactly that, there are enough mountains in RL.

It is very easy to create that kind of atmosphere of conspiracy. You just need to keep hinting at "things I couldn't possibly disclose" from sources which "cannot be revealed"

Oh yeah!

WB. I had wondered about those two names, too, possibly being one person. Something about cats and tuna, and being a gran with big boobs. For a nanosecond we thought it was someone we knew, then decided it wasn't her style. I personally don't recognise this person's style. She seems to claim that she's not English, and possibly that she's Scots. The kisses, the use of "guys" and the general genre of the writing is a bit odd. Really strange posts. Some clearly even stranger, as they were deleted. A bit spooky too as s/he seems to "know" people although that wouldn't be difficult if the person has spent some time studying threads. Nowt as queer... as someone somewhere said.
They've disappeared now anyway. Had their fun and got bored.
Lara, yes, for the same reasons as most others have said, plus I quite enjoy taking part in the games. Bit of light relief. Long may Gransnet last.