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mouser:
Is there any way to see the IP address of where a person logged in from?
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actually yes, we can look up the ips for all the recent posts you've made, and they all come from two ips that you have been using for all your posts.

don't forget that the time stamp refers to central time in the US. or rather, its showing what YOU set your time offset to be from the server time so make sure you have that correct.

so i think there are two possibilities -- either you really did wake up and make a sleep post, which is kind of a fun idea and seems possible.  or something else got screwy on the forum and someone posted a reply and somehow it got recorded as from you instead of them..

mouser:
one more clue:

looking at the edit, i can see that one other change was made to the text: from "and there you appeared" to "and there you appeared again." which seems to me an odd change for someone else to do besides you.. maybe you edited that one line and somehow the quote got messed up..

regardless, while posts are each tagged with the ip of poster, mods aren't.  though the log of user logins does list ips (and only shows yours), i am modifying the post modification log code to record ips as well, so that should solve the mystery if it ever happens again.

mouser:
I have now made the changes, so while i still think sleep-posting or something else equally harmless is the most likely cause, i'll now be able to look up the ip and other info associated with every edit made on the forum if need be.

wraith808:
The weirdest thing to me is that I had an unread PM; I'd seen it by e-mail, so I hadn't read it on the board.  But now it's showing up read.  It's not a big deal- I was just wondering because it struck me as odd.

Thanks for looking into it, though.

40hz:
@Mouser - Sleep-posting? Intriguing idea + great descriptive term. Is that your own?

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