However, the biographical data of coldmountain, pre-remote (when there would have been no motive to falsify such data)--how does that fit DB? Did DB ever live in the South for 30 years?
If you're gonna run a successful sockpuppet or keep a second screen name handy in the event you get a granite pizza...you'd want to make that "person" look as opposite from you as possible.
You're from NJ....your sock lives in the Deep South. etc. etc.
Where this one seems to have screwed up as do most of them eventually...is they have certain "crutch" phrases in their writing. Things that make you go "wait a minute...this sounds familiar". And then they are outed.
I think the only way to know for sure is to find a way to check ISP addresses. But IMO it's about a 70-30 that this is Dain.
Maybe BadCat can run his DUmpster Diver program and tell if the two are the same.