Greetings (belated) and best wishes to Doon in the US also.
I do not mention tidings about location when I know that it is not wanted.
p.s. I have no extension - I see usually the last part of the {long (a89-182-68-101.net-
htp.de Hannover Telefon Germany; my local ISP ) and all of short (numbers)} IPs. Most IP contain some human readable text, often with a country code - our forum does the resolutions. The info can help to decide whether a post is spam (e.g. if country of origins and language do not match, is not really readable even with translation aid or contains URLs).
It also can help to answer. It helps to resolve language problems - if You know the post's country of origin. For the later reason I sometimes wished that we all could see the ending of the URLs.
The URL is IMHO no give away since on each dial in we are all normally allocated a random dynamic IP from the pool of our ISP providers. Unless we pay extra for static IP so that we can easier run a server.
I am allocated random IP and server locations around Hannover - same system as in .az and .ca.
BTW. Doon, I swear, I will not mention Your hidden server
I am just kidding
The forum shows such IP info to moderators, admins and devs.
Actually i am neither, nor. I volunteered & was recruited by jsnj to fight spam - I see info and can perform actions that are needed to censor - makes me one of the Spam Admins.
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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/06/2010 09:55PM by guenter.