[Gllug] re: posts from non-subscribers

[David Damerell]

On Thursday, 21 Aug 2003, Tethys wrote:
>David Damerell writes:
>>Ah, someone who believes the geographical location of an IP address is
>>easily determined. How quaint.
>To an extent, it is. Of course, it's not 100% accurate, but it's
>reasonably easy to get over 99.5% accuracy by looking at ARIN,
>RIPE and APNIC assignment lists. That, of course, isn't good
>enough for blocking traffic (email or otherwise),

Quite. It's not all that easy, either. :-)

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