On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Chris Ball wrote: > I mentioned this on IRC; Ambrosia Software (http://www.ambrosiasw.com/) > used to sell a game called Avara way back in 1996 or so, and the tracker > (meta-server) for on-line play showed a world map with *very* accurate > locations; I remember that it correctly showed my dialup as being in > Brighton. I wonder if they'd be willing to tell us how they did it. :)
It was net-based, and not dialup (where call ID would make it mostly trivial) right ? Or perhaps you were using a local ISP, whose delegation/whois data gave the game away ? the hatter
