"Aluxe" <aluxelocochon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:20:54 GMT, John Navas wrote:
> >>Doesn't it make it harder for you to track all my usenet posts?
> >>Can you easily track the last five hundred of my usenet posts otherwise?
> >
> > Changing your IP won't have any real bearing on that.
>
> Hi John,
> Again, I thank you for your advice but this one I don't understand.
>
> When I look at the header of my posts I can easily see my router's IP
> address in the header ...

But if someone was to check on that IP address, they would find it belonged
to your ISP. It would be one of many addresses in a block that your ISP was
assigned.
Unless of course you went out and had your own IP address assigned, which we
know is not the case.
>
> If I kept the same IP address for, say, a year, wouldn't ALL my posts in
> that year have the same IP address on it?

It is your ISP's address. Unless you go out and get a static address from
your ISP, than yes that IP can be associated with you. But if you just use
your cable modem like most everyone else, you are only being assigned an IP
from your ISP, it is your ISP who will be identified with that address.

As a test go ahead and do a whois lookup. If you do not know what that is,
do a google on whois.

Once you get to a whois lookup site, type in the IP address your computer
was given by your ISP.
Do an ipconfig /all at the command prompt.
You will see that whois returns your ISP as being the owner of that IP
address.
Hence all your work of trying to change your IP is doing nothing for your
privacy.


>
> If anyone wanted to gather up all my posts (no matter what name or
> newsreader I used), wouldn't keeping the same IP address make that task
> trivial?

Just using your name in Google group search would show all your posts, would
not even need your address.