News Story Newspaper Outs Anonymous Poster

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Wed, 11/18/2009 - 22:28

Here's a switch. Instead of newspapers trying to protect the identities of the people posting to their websites, the newspaper is the one outing them.

As described by editor Kurt Greenbaum of the St.

Louis Post-Dispatch , someone posted a vulgar word in the paper's online commenting system, and re-posted it after a newspaper staffer deleted it.

"I deleted it, but noticed in the WordPress e-mail alert that his comment had come from an IP...

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