What's in a name: or, 200 = 196 = 197 = 198 = 199 = 205 = 206

We have been seeing that wikipedia histories show that Rogers' subscribers' IP addresses are not completely fixed: one can begin with one IP, shift to another, and then back within a very short space. Klatt testified that when 66.185.84.204 visited the freedomsite, the logs show shifts to 66.185.84.200 and back, and it is clear that this happened a good deal.

A good example of how much shifting could happen comes from the wikipedia article List of Biblical names. As its name implies, it is merely a long alphabetical list of characters who appeal in the bible.

Consider this section of its edit-history from February 2005. (Wikipedia logs are read from the bottom up.)

• 18:01, 14 February 2005 PFHLai (Talk | contribs) (remove {{Vprotectedsmall}})
  
• 03:42, 14 February 2005 PFHLai (Talk | contribs) (+ {{Vprotectedsmall}})
  
• 03:41, 14 February 2005 PFHLai (Talk | contribs) m (Reverted edits by 66.185.84.200 to last version by PFHLai)
  
• 03:37, 14 February 2005 66.185.84.200 (Talk) (→K)
  
• 03:36, 14 February 2005 PFHLai (Talk | contribs) (restore a previous version after vandalism by an Anon. with multiple IPs)
  
• 03:33, 14 February 2005 66.185.84.197 (Talk) (→J)
  
• 03:26, 14 February 2005 66.185.84.198 (Talk) (→I)
  
• 03:24, 14 February 2005 66.185.84.206 (Talk) (→H)
  
• 03:21, 14 February 2005 66.185.84.205 (Talk) (→G)
  
• 03:18, 14 February 2005 66.185.84.199 (Talk) (→E)
  
• 03:13, 14 February 2005 66.185.84.198 (Talk) (→D)
  
• 03:09, 14 February 2005 66.185.84.206 (Talk) (→C)
  
• 03:06, 14 February 2005 66.185.84.196 (Talk) (→B)
  
• 03:03, 14 February 2005 Rje (Talk | contribs) m (rv to last edit by Ihcoyc, semi-blanking)
  
• 03:01, 14 February 2005 66.185.84.200 (Talk) (→A)
  

Here you can see that an editor began with 66.185.84.200, the IP mentioned by Klatt in his testimony, and in the course of 36-minutes, his IP was shifted at least 9 times. (I say 'at least', because there is no way of knowing that there weren't shifts between these postings.)

(It is clear that the user is the same -- he is engaging in what in wikipedia is called blanking-vandalism.)