>
>somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 11/29/02 4:40 PM, the entity
>known as David Orriss Jr transmitted the following from dave_at_davenet.net:
>
>>
>> Heck with Einstein, you could be the village idiot and still see that the
>> emails came from the same computer. That's the nice thing about ip codes.
>> They're like rabbit droppings all over the internet. It's even better in
>> that nowadays machines always have the *same* IP code since so very often
>> emails are sent from dedicated IP connections.
>>
>
>Not to throw a monkey wrench into the discussion, but since the original was
>through Comcast (i.e., cable modem), your "equal IPs means same computer"
>theory just ain't necessarily so. AFAIK, no Comcast user is *guaranteed* to
>get the same IP every time they reset or turn off their cable modem. *IF*
>the first person turned off their cable modem for any length of time, the IP
>number could've been freed up and recycled to someone else (namely
>Katarina).
>
>- Eric.
Just pursuing my internet education here, but wouldn't this be a
vanishingly small probability? What are the odds that two people,
discussing the same issue, would both be in NJ having the same IP address
in the same time frame? As the Brits might say, "Not bloody likely"!
This evidence may not be enough to convict, but it certainly seems
sufficient to indite.
Mark Ross
markr13_at_comcast.net
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