On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 02:06:50 -0400, Mark Wagner wrote:
>
>Ron Parker wrote in message ...
>>>
>>>To what degree can you do it with me?  What is the IP address of the
>machine
>>>whose keyboard I'm sitting at?  The machine that's running this copy of
>slrn?
>>>What's the name of my ISP?  Why does using Linux and Netscape signify an
>>>anti-Microsoft bias?
>>>
>>
>>Oh yeah, and what timezone am I in?
>
>
>The IP address of the computer that posted the message to the povray.org
>news server was 216.202.195.127

False.  That's the IP address of the proxy server I was using.  The
computer that was running slrn has an IP address of 10.0.0.2 (which
isn't routable) and the IP address of the machine whose keyboard I
was sitting at is 207.51.177.81.  In this case, I own the proxy server
(and it's configured securely) but it's possible, even likely, that 
someone else is running an improperly configured proxy server that I 
could have used to completely hide my IP address.

>Your ISP is Fort Wayne InterneT, LLC

True.  That was the easy one, just a quick whois at arin.net.  Again,
though, trusting the IP address.  (If I wanted to be a real pain, I 
could mention that Fort Wayne Internet doesn't exist anymore, as they
were bought out by Skyenet.)

>You are in the time zone GMT -4 (Eastern Daylight Time)

False.  Fort Wayne is in GMT-0500, Eastern Standard Time, all year round.
The times on that message were inserted by the news server, which is in
the EDT zone.

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