Theodore Tso wrote: > Suppose you have 100 sock puppets all with gmail or hotmail accounts Wait a moment, I don't know about hotmail accounts, but for gmail it is possible to have corresponding "google pages", a profile, a jabber account, etc., and the task to check how plausible this is is not harder than for many similar accounts at other providers. If you consider it as likely that an entity claiming to be Frank Ellermann exists and created some <http://purl.net/xyzzy> pages, then you'd find that this entity redirected all rev="made" links plus a "contact" link on <http://purl.net/xyzzy/privacy.htm> to the Reply-To gmail address of this article. You'd also find that http://hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz.googlepages.com/index.html (derived from the horrible local part) confirms that theory. It's also possible to submit mails using SMTP or rather RFC 4409 with Gmail accounts, in that case you'd see a normal source IP in the header, not the "anonymous" Web mail IP. FWIW, it is of course no rocket science to arrange an "unsuspicious" source IP. > the positions of their Great Leader JFC, is in fact rough > consensus. :-) Yes, but faking a plausible legend would be hard work, and it is tough luck when other folks simply challenge a "missing" legend: <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.ltru/9269/match=jfc+wrote> Frank _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf