Apparently on date Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:30:29 -0000, Pete Smith
said:

In article ,
says...
In article , News
writes

Do you know my neighbour?

No, but I know who you are. You're the trolling ****wit who posts as
"IMM" in uk.d-i-y. Apart from having an identical posting style,
displaying a complete lack of clue, showing a breathtaking level of
arrogance, etc., you're both posting from the same computer:


How did you manage to track this down?

I didn't think google was too hot on searching headers of news postings.

Google isn't important.

If you are using standard mail readers, the information is just in the headers
for all to see. If you use something like Outlook Express, it doesn't cover
this stuff so you can't see it.

I'm on Agent, and you can download that for free from www.forteinc.com if you
want to see how it all works. In Agent, to track down the information, you just
press the "h" key to turn the headers on and off. It's probably similar in many
other news readers.

The (common) headers in the CrapaClean poster's posts, look like this:

From: "News"
Newsgroups: uk.rec.cars.misc,uk.rec.cars.maintenance
Organization: no org
NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.134.67.161
X-Trace: news6.svr.pol.co.uk 1079434826 29796 217.134.67.161 (16 Mar 2004
11:00:26 GMT)
X-Complaints-To:
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106