Can we stick to topic here girls? Making fun of peoplešs newgroup
names? What are in grade school?
Yes I do take offence when someone answers a question that is directed
to me. One of those people wanted to know if they were close enough to
me that they could drive to my location. As it turned out I was close.
I would like to see this rampant out of order question answering you
speak of.
Study hall is over. Go back to class.
CSL
In article >, Wine Mogel > wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Yes I do take offence when someone answers a question that is directed
> to me... and also is answered wrong.
> Just as spam is unwanted and has no relevance so is answering another
> persons question. So "Mortally offended"? No I have not died from your
> interception of a question directed to me or the incorrectness.
>
> So enough all ready,
> CSL
>
>
> In article >, Mark Lipton
> > wrote:
>
> > dick wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Also, I looked at your header...how does Mark L read the header and find
> > > Connecticut. I could not find at all?
> >
> > Dick,
> > Nothing magical here. I just resolved the IP number found in the
> > NNTP-Posting-Host header record. The host name in this case was quite
> > informative (91.hartford-20rh15-16rt.ct.dial-access.att.net). It doesn't
> > take a genius to figure out where that is likely to be located ;-) although
> > the OP seems to have been mortally offended that it was 80 miles off. Since
> > not all host names are so rich in geographic information, you can also use
> > the
> > traceroute utility to follow the hops that the Internet takes in getting
> > from
> > your computer to theirs: very often the names of the servers involved in the
> > intermediate hops will give you detailed information about their location,
> > which helps place the destination host. This may all seem arcane and
> > pointless, but is very useful when dealing with spammers (and took me all of
> > 30 seconds in this case). Even if you don't know how to find those
> > utilities
> > on your computer, you can use web-based versions:
> >
> > http://www.samspade.org <------ often slow response
> > http://www.network-tools.com
> > http://www.visualroute.visualware.com
> >
> > HTH
> > Mark Lipton
> >