incrediBILL - 5:37 pm on Jun 24, 2005 (gmt 0)

Maybe this has been covered all ready, if someone has a link or 2 to a thread that explains explicitly why it isn't possible or reasonable to just discount these clicks, especially when google are so confident that its the account holder who is the responsible party, then Id be very much obliged.

How can google track anyone discarding cookies and using dialups like AOL or some such?

IPs are rarely static these days as most have DHCP, my cable modem holds an IP for a long time but sites like AOL rotate them about every 15 minutes from a server pool.

If you have a solution to the problem, we're all ears.

Beyond that, what part of "ITS AGAINST THE RULES" are you missing? You don't always need technology to fix something that common sense, reading, and knowing right from wrong would stop an honest person from doing in the first place.

I thought we HELPED each other. Of course, you can beat someone with a stick a few times, but I think s/he was looking for CONSTRUCTIVE criticism.

There is only so much help you can give someone that doesn't bother reading the rules in the first place. I think you're mistaking help for sympathy as we were in no position to offer any help at that juncture other than "write google", oh big whoop and dee doo, some help.

MAYBE, just MAYBE someone else that caught this thread that hasn't really read the TOS and went back and read them after this so we don't go thru this every day for the rest of the month. MAYBE we helped the next hapless victim from becoming one.

You can't help them all, but maybe a couple of lurkers learned and won't be the next forum fodder, but that would be a ray of hope wouldn't it?

What AM I thinking....?