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Quick technical pondering: how do services like TimesSelect prevent people from "donating" their logins to services like BugMeNot? I mean, I suppose it'd be easy enough to track things like "how often is it used?" and "how many people use it at once?" and "how often does the IP change?" (though wireless coffee shops are making the latter a bad criterion, I suppose) The thing that's sticky (in my head) is that AFAICT they don't actually do this with normal logins (otherwise BugMeNot etc wouldn't work), and the same login works for both activities. Might there just be a toggle like "check for abuse? (Y/N)" that would be set based on your TimesSelect status?