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Bullwinkle. tries to irritate folk yet again.

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Peter Foldes asserts that he *can* identify people by a header:-

 > Learn to hide the biggest give away and that happens to be the 1st time
 > stamp in the posting properties plus one more that pinpoints which you do
 > not and will never know.

I'd like to understand more about what he says.

First of all, is it true?  By *time stamp* - more than one?

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Just did a bit of searching and came up with this thread.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!topic/alt.computer.security/-mZPSlZ7CT0

Do you know what he said then?

 >Peter Foldes wrote...

 >> LOL. I still see you. You will not learn or should I say
 >> never  how to read the actual senders computer IP in the
 >> posting properties. You do not have the tool to do it

BD replied ...

 > Ah! I think I am beginning to understand!
 >
 > You say "You do not have the tool to do it"
 >
 > That implies that you *do* have such a tool.
 >
 > Why, I wonder?


'Guy Macon' (the insult file fellow) responded with .......


I don't know Peter Foldes, so it might just be the usual
USENET B.S., but it could simply be his way of saying
"the IP address is encrypted.  You don't have the
key (tool) needed to decrypt it."


In general, you have to get used to the basic truth that
USENET is a medium where there are nuggets of gold hidden
among a bunch of total rubbish, and it's up to you to try
to figure out which is which.  The whole idea of tracing
who a USENET poster is from his IP address is a great
example of a W.O.M.B.A.T. (Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time).

Anyone who spends ten minutes doing a web search can hide
his identity on USENET well enough so that you would need
a court order to figure out who he is, and with half an hour
doing a web search he can figure out how to hide from the
court order as well. Getting into disputes with anonymous
posters and trying to track them down is for losers.
Ignoring them and only responding to the non-trolls is what
winners do.

  "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet
   is a sucker's game because they almost always
   turn out to  be -- or to be indistinguishable
   from -- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing
   infinite amounts of free time."
                              -Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon


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