On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 09:06 AM, Mark Ross wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>
Actually there could also be other explanations... Say perhaps the IP
address actually is identifying the SMTP server and not the local IP...
Or as previously suggested, if a whole subnet is connected through a
NAT then they would all appear to be the same.
Or if an Email client hardcodes a certain IP address(this would be a
bug in my mind),
I don't know where those addresses come from, but I certainly wouldn't
convict anyone based on that...
Marty
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