Alan Kennedy wrote: > [Robert Kern] > >>Most of AOL's offices are in Dulles, VA. Google's headquarters are in > >>Mountain View, CA. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Aha, I post to the usenet through Google. Makes the map application > > all the more stupid, doesn't it? > > Actually, no, because Google Groups sets the NNTP-Posting-Host header to > the IP address from which the user connected to Google. So your post to > which I'm replying came from IP address "68.73.244.37", which reverses > to "adsl-68-73-244-37.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net". > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/ca06957210fe12ae?dmode=source > > So presumably "chcgil" indicates you're in Chicago, Illinois?
Yes, but why, then, is my name logged into Mountain View, CA? That justifies my claim of "all the more stupid", doesn't it? > > Although I do have to point out that the map makes it appear as if I've > been busy posting from all over Dublin's Southside, which, as anyone who > has seen "The Commitments" can attest, is a deep insult a born-and-bred > Northsider such as myself ;-) > > -- > alan kennedy > ------------------------------------------------------ > email alan: http://xhaus.com/contact/alan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list