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	[quote name="laudablepuss"][quote name="The OMM Fugitive"][quote name="Dick Clownshoes"]And I know who it's coming from, because I backtraced it! And I know who's emailing and who's doing it, and you've been reported to the cyber-police and the state police! You better not write one more thing, or screw with my computer again, you'll be arrested, end of conversation, from her father! And if you come near my daughter, guess what? Consequences will never be the same![/quote]Now that over 20 years have passed, I reckon it's safe to confess my "cyber crimes." Not long after he took down the OMM forums, Chet accused me of <i>hacking</i> for editing site URLs. Like a lot of posters, I went over to the POE forums for a bit after Chet shut down OMM. While there, I noticed that the only difference between the two forums was a single digit in the URL. I knew Chet ran a whole "network" of other sites, some of them likely with their own forums, so I tried incrementing the URL number to see where else it would take me. I think the next number above POE took me to POE News. I don't recall if there were any more after that, but they stopped working pretty quickly, and I gave up after a few failed attempts. Chet would later accuse me of trying to find the OMM forums, and I will admit the possibility did cross my mind. But I didn't seriously believe he would be that careless. I mean, you can even download browser extensions that will automatically increment URL numbers for you. If what I did qualifies as "hacking," then those developers belong in prison. Still, Chet made it clear that I done goofed and consequences would never be the same. Even though I thought he was being kind of ridiculous, I felt bad for upsetting him, and offered a sincere apology. When I tried to go to the POE forum the next day, it wouldn't load, so I assume he saw my post and blocked my IP.[/quote] Thanks for this. But I'm not sure I understand. You incremented the url to see what else was out there . . . how did he even know you did that? Oh I bet you mentioned it in a post, like "here's a thing I noticed" and he freaked out. And trying to find the OMM forums -- so Chet just deleted the DNS entry? It was 20 years ago but still . . .[/quote]