What does Gransnet mean to you?

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.

I prefer your second explanation, Wobbly

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Not you Corncob !!

Even more cowardly then.

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.

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.

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.

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

I tried !last night and again this morning to post on this thread and couldn't. I was getting paranoid. I feel very strongly how cowardly it was to post those comments and then run without us knowing which ex member it was who had turned so nasty.

I feel ashamed to have encouraged this thread at first, it seemed an intriguing mystery at first, but then went sour at DB's expense.
Sorry DB

I do not think that this thread is quite what Lara was expecting!

Has that person said her party piece and vanished, hopefully forever? There is really no necessity to be so rude and vitriolic, hiding behind a nom de plum.

How can anybody be an ex Scot? I have lived in London for more years than I ever lived in Scotland but I am still Scottish and proud to be so.

Well that shot off into the ether didn't it? Started out as intriguing, became abusive then seemingly self-destructive. Surely not what OP was expecting and hopefully not a metaphor for Gransnet

It says all I need to know about GN that we still keep in our thoughts that lovely lady Greatnan its tribute to her that she is remembered with great affection by many of us.

GN used to mean firing up the laptop (now iPad) and saying Good Morning to friendly souls, enquiringly after their well being, sharing their joys and shedding a tear with their sorrows
Latterly, I feel a is too often necessary to gird the loins for whatever might be thrown in this (or indeed any) direction.
Greatnan typified what was best about GN and those of us who remember lively intellectual debate, her gift of poetry, some often dodgy jokes, not suffering fools gladly but offering wise counsel, support and genuine friendship, mayl pause a moment, reflect and remember a unique person who went missing 3 years ago this weekend. RIP Greatnan and may perpetual light shine upon you.

Morethan2, couldn't have put it better, not enough room for everything.

I cannot believe that it is 3 years since greatnan's accident.

Good idea, more than! A how are you? thread.

I'm afraid I'm the opposite I winge whineand moan post a lot but don't read a lot. I just haven't got the space in my head. I often read a thread but if it's too long I realise I've missed somthing relevant and so it goes above my levelofintelligence head. I do keep some things in my thoughts harrigran is a good example. I want to ask how are you? but don't want to start a whole thread because it seems intrusive when perhaps those of us in a difficult place want privacy. Maybe we just need a ongoing how r u thread. So people can ask and get a quick ?. Anyway I've no idea what all the cryptic chatter was about

I also have an inkling don't post much but read a lot...