Posting people's IPs in the Forum

Subject: RE: Posting people's IPs in the Forum
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 09:03 AM

Curious, I find the best starting point is ARIN whois. This will either get you the answer or point you to RIPE for Europe or APNIC for Asia as appropriate.

Jon

Subject: RE: Posting people's IPs in the Forum
From: GUEST,Curious
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 08:52 AM

How did you do that, Jon?

Subject: RE: Posting people's IPs in the Forum
From: GUEST,Fed up
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 08:52 AM

Bingo Jon.

I thought it would take someone longer than that on a Saturday morning to see through the ruse.

This forum is full of people doing this very thing. Responding to other people's personal invective. Trolling with outrageous accusations/challenges/statements. Starting a whole new thread for the express purpose of personally attacking those you've disagreed with in other threads.

For a "healing" place of prayerful goodwill, there sure is a lot of rancor in people posting here.

I think I've managed to make my point.

All

Subject: RE: Posting people's IPs in the Forum
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 08:30 AM

For Fuck's sake All - STOP.

Bill D did not post your IP address in the forum and to the best of my knowledge has no means of getting it (unless he is a very clever seceret hacker).

Bill posted an IP adress as an an example just to show what one looked like. If you really want to know, I've looked it up:

inetnum 210.38.124.0 - 210.38.127.255
netname GDPTS-CN
descr ~{9c6+J!SJ5gQ'P#~}
descr Guangdong Post & Telecom School
descr Guangzhou, Guangdong 510630, China
country CN

Jon

Subject: Posting people's IPs in the Forum
From: GUEST,Fed up
Date: 14 Jul 01 - 08:22 AM

Bill D, a Mudcat member has posted my IP in the "Posting Anonymously" thread.

Just how low will some people stoop, very quickly, to intentionally cause harm to another person here?

My last post asked, quite politely, that people try and understand how devastating it can be to have one's anonymity violated.

And this was Bill D's response.

Does Mudcat have a policy on members posting other users IP addresses in the forum?

I don't care how rancorous the debate has gotten over this issue, IMO this has gone so far beyond the line of decency, I can't believe I'm even seeing it happen.

All