On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:24:36 GMT, Aluxe <aluxelocochon@yahoo.com> wrote
in <1bmxxlp6c5bep.17uhbudn22tqq.dlg@40tude.net>:

>On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:42:17 +0100, Mark McIntyre wrote:
>> They can't figure any of that out from an IP, no matter how hard they
>> try. The best someone can do from your IP is work out which town
>> you're posting from.
>
>Hi Mark,
>Are you sure about that?

I am.

>It seems to me that even I could save usenet posts and then save the IP
>address and from that, I could find EVERY post you ever posted (assuming
>you kept the same IP address the whole time) just by grabbing the header
>line that stores your nntp posting host (which in my case, is unique).
>
>If I can do it that easily (and you've already said I am computer
>illiterate), I shudder to think how easy it would be for a "bad guy" to do
>it for me.
>
>What is wrong with what I said above?

You don't understand how the Internet works.

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