"raden" wrote in message



There seem to be a lot of posts purporting to be from the previous
poster in a thread containing weird recipes

From: http://www.netrn.net/computing.htm

Your IP address is the number assigned by your internet service provider
(ISP) that identifies your computer as you surf the web. An IP address
usually looks like this: 111.222.333.444. It may have less digits in
each field.

If you want to know your computer's IP address IPChicken will tell you:
http://www.ipchicken.com/ You can also find it by clicking start,
run, typing cmd, (in Win XP), hit enter, then type in "ipconfig" without
the quotes.

The important thing to know about your IP address is that it is recorded
at every website you visit and is shown in the header of every email
that you send. However your IP address cannot be traced to you as in
individual. It can be looked up at http://www.arin.net/whois.

When you type in the set of numbers it will show the netblock or range
of numbers in which yours is located. It may list the name of your ISP.
It might or might not give a clue to the area where you live.

The only way to prevent your IP address from being visible on the web is
to use a proxy or service such as Anonymizer to mask your identify while
you surf.



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