On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:05:13 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Not any more. There are companies that collect sign-up information that
> can be matched to IP addresses. For example, if you buy something from
> Amazon, they have your shipping address and your IP address. I know of
> companies that will sell you the service of looking up the zipcode
> associated with a given IP address, which I understand they get by
> collecting such pairs and doing the appropriate analysis on them.

Interesting, hadn't thought about that, but that makes sense.  Still, 
even using geobytes (which seems to be one of the more sophisticated 
tools), they still put me in Denver.

Jim

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