On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:24:36 GMT, in alt.internet.wireless , Aluxe
<aluxelocochon@yahoo.com> wrote:

>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?
>
>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).

Theoretically, if you had a database of every usenet post ever posted
by everyone in the world, you could find all the messages posted from
my current IP and look at them. So what? You could also go to google
groups and search for me by name, you'd find posts stretching back to
1995. None of this lets you track me down.

>What is wrong with what I said above?

Nothing, except you missed out the part where this is any sort of
privacy or security risk.
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Mark McIntyre