Problem is... ANYONE can claim that. Sure, I deleted that character a year ago, and no longer play EQ, so thus this is my character name and I'm sticking to it. You could be Genoz and use that defense with no problems. Claiming mods can just look up your IP wouldn't help either--I've changed ISP's and therefore IP's about 5 times in the last year. I could've created as many ezboard usernames as my heart desired during that time frame. Long story short, it doesn't matter what defense you use here, it could all be BS regardless.