<Don't you find it strange that the 3 of you (assuming its 3 different people) come from Florida, and write in such a way that its impossible to discern one from the other?

You should know better than that, Steve.

IPs are area-specific. Internet providers buy a pool of IP addresses to be disseminated to their clients. When a user logs off, the IP is dumped back to the pool for reuse. To save ‘work’, the address is also stored in pool-memory, to be recalled for the same user should he/she log back in. In the event that particular IP is in use, another is retrieved.

I would be very, very surprised if identical IP numbers were traced to different providers and different regions. It can be done through nefarious hacking, but not as a daily whim.

That Lindy and Publius are both from Florida and using the same IP address is not the oddity. What’s strange is that both Floridians arrived at the Habitable Zone on the same day -- and apparently on the same ‘bus’.

Interesting, but evidence of foul play remains lacking -- not that it would really matter one way or the other to us. We’re stuck with what we find and the abilities we maintain. If the limit of our abilities show someone is guilty of some oversight in net-et, the issue should then be taken off-line for an in-house conference with the site managers via email.

Dan