He did make name stealing impossible, IF you reserved your name on wotmania. Since Balwer thought someone would have stolen his name, I doubt he reserved it. And if he didn't do that, how else would Ben have protected his name? He'd have had to tie it to a particular email address (presumably a personal one of Balwer's that he has for some reason) and hope Balwer uses that one to register.
Yeah, I did think of that, actually, but I wasn't sure what Ben did with existing SNs that weren't reserved, if they were just out there, or dead, or what. I'm kinda tempted to register someone who's been gone for ages, just to check, but I don't want them to show up and be, like, "Which one of you

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Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!

LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
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30/01/2010 03:13:37 AM
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Not only didn't we take it, we printed you up a Kenyan birth certificate entitling you to it. *NM*
30/01/2010 04:19:00 AM
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I believe Ben went to some lengths to make name stealing nigh impossible.
30/01/2010 06:32:06 AM
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Did you think about that message?
30/01/2010 06:51:37 AM
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You owe me one brain, intact.
30/01/2010 06:54:54 AM
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tsk. ridiculously long name. I didn't want it. Also quite a lot of history.
30/01/2010 07:13:39 PM
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who would want your name anyway?
30/01/2010 10:36:00 PM
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I'm sure there are plenty of WoT readers that are HUGE Sebban Balwer fans. *NM*
31/01/2010 12:19:55 AM
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