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
>