quote:Originally posted by robertlipe:Without a court order to get AOL's records of "what account was connected to address X at 1:43 pm" you're not going to get that information from them.
By mentioning AOL, you indirectly bring up the other problem: proxies. There's a good chance that two distinct AOL users will be using the same proxy to connect to a given website. So not only can one person have multiple IP addresses, but multiple people can have the same IP address.
(Oh, and I'm posting with a sock puppet account that's been around for a lot longer than 5 days. See if you can guess how I voted.)
