Aw clients with aliases

[Hobbes]

The following quotes regarding aliases are taken from another forum I'm on that some may find useful. Although the tech gobbledegook goes way over my head others may understand it.

Actually, it is nothing to do with people who have contacted her. It is solely to do with people who the AW system believes may be the same. One of the ways it makes that determination is if someone logs onto the same fucking computer! And - not an unreasonable stance to take generally!

The reason you get so many is that they use an inheritance propagation mechanism that seemingly causes what some would consider akin to exponential proliferation. By way of example: Let's say you use YOUR PC and then someone else used yours and THAT person had 5 aliases (rightly or wrongly) - then you would inherit their id as an alias PLUS THE OTHER 5. If one of those five had 10 further aliases - then you would inherit them as well and so on.

There's a bit more here on how it works when I asked if changing a user name would show up as an alias.

Changing your name does not cause an alias.

The AW system - in common with most others (including SP) - has the concept of a user id and a user name. So, whilst you user name on here is Hobbes, your user id is actually 36 (one of the early ones!). Similarly, on AW you will have a name - let's say "AW Hobbes" and an id - let's say 123456.

The id is used as the key and if you recall when you post an escort link you will see the id in that link - and it is the id that cannot change. The name you use is just information associated with the key - as are things like your IP address, password, hair colour and all the other ephemera that AW insist you tell them.

In the same way as changing your phone number (for example) does not cause you to have an alias, nor does changing your user name.

It is when you set up a new account - a different user id - and use that from an IP address associated with another user id that the system associates them and - in AW's case - creates the object that we refer to as an Alias.

Thus when any escort sees your name appear they will also see all the names associated (aliased) with it. As I have said in other posts this can be quite a large list in some instances as you inherit aliases from others who may use your PC.

Clear as mud!