On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 14:56, Kirk Hillman wrote:
> I'm not up to date on computers but what the heck are they using to
> identify my computer on this site? They only let you vote once, which makes
> sense, but how they heck do they know it's me??? My cookies are turned off
> and all the other controls require a prompt... weird.
Your computer presents it's IP number and (internt) name the servers...
the server just remembers the ones that have visited.
See http://lucas.ucs.ed.ac.uk/cgi-bin/printenv to see who (one of) my
server thinks you are....
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