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From: Lawrence on 30 Apr 2008 04:29 Anyone know how to decipher this piece of info from a post made to me? If you understand whats going on here please explain this for me. X-Trace: DXC=79[NJSdE30R^aLO\TaP_G^OA8_@f\K_iRRPb [mF?JA\Ulc<Fnj37TW>d\>a(a)KAenPPC3bF^QY<PUP>^Z?ONQl^Y -- "We are also brainwashing our children on the warming topic. We have no better example than Al Gore's alarmists and inaccurate movie which is being shown in our schools and being hawked by warming activists with little or no meteorological-climate background," Gray wrote. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23411799-7583,00.html http://www.firesociety.com/article/24204/
From: Bit Twister on 30 Apr 2008 09:31 On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:29:22 -1000, Lawrence wrote: > Anyone know how to decipher this piece of info from > a post made to me? I would like to know how myself. > If you understand whats going on here please explain this for me. > X-Trace: DXC=79[NJSdE30R^aLO\TaP_G^OA8_@f\K_iRRPb > [mF?JA\Ulc<Fnj37TW>d\>a(a)KAenPPC3bF^QY<PUP>^Z?ONQl^Y Most likely it is enough information for the abuse department at hawaiiantel.net to track you down to cancel your account, if anyone reports you for Usenet abuse.
From: Whiskers on 30 Apr 2008 12:06 On 2008-04-30, Lawrence <lmaroney(a)um.edu> wrote: > Anyone know how to decipher this piece of info from > a post made to me? Posts aren't made to individuals, they're made to the whole world. > If you understand whats going on here please explain this for me. > > > X-Trace: DXC=79[NJSdE30R^aLO\TaP_G^OA8_@f\K_iRRPb > [mF?JA\Ulc<Fnj37TW>d\>a(a)KAenPPC3bF^QY<PUP>^Z?ONQl^Y Such headers are inserted by the news-server to which the article was posted - and if they look 'encrypted' or indecipherable that's because the NSP concerned likes it that way. They probably want some way to help them trace the origin of a post if they get abuse reports (or secret police aproaches) without betraying anything to 'just anybody'. -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~
From: Lawrence on 30 Apr 2008 12:50 Whiskers wrote: > On 2008-04-30, Lawrence <lmaroney(a)um.edu> wrote: >> Anyone know how to decipher this piece of info from >> a post made to me? > > Posts aren't made to individuals, they're made to the whole world. well, it was directed to me but technically you are correct. > >> If you understand whats going on here please explain this for me. >> >> >> X-Trace: DXC=79[NJSdE30R^aLO\TaP_G^OA8_@f\K_iRRPb >> [mF?JA\Ulc<Fnj37TW>d\>a(a)KAenPPC3bF^QY<PUP>^Z?ONQl^Y > > Such headers are inserted by the news-server to which the article was > posted - and if they look 'encrypted' or indecipherable that's because the > NSP concerned likes it that way. They probably want some way to help them > trace the origin of a post if they get abuse reports (or secret police > aproaches) without betraying anything to 'just anybody'. is there anyway to decipher that stuff? would be nice to know where the asswipe is posting from. > -- "We are also brainwashing our children on the warming topic. We have no better example than Al Gore's alarmists and inaccurate movie which is being shown in our schools and being hawked by warming activists with little or no meteorological-climate background," Gray wrote. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23411799-7583,00.html http://www.firesociety.com/article/24204/
From: Whiskers on 30 Apr 2008 15:16
On 2008-04-30, Lawrence <lmaroney(a)um.edu> wrote: > Path: uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de! postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com! nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com! nntp.hawaiiantel.net!news.hawaiiantel.net.POSTED!not-for-mail [...] > Message-ID: <CeGdnY5uCq3EPoXVnZ2dnUVZ_vyinZ2d(a)hawaiiantel.net> [...] > X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com > X-Complaints-To: abuse(a)hawaiiantel.net > X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse(a)hawaiiantel.net [...] > Whiskers wrote: >> On 2008-04-30, Lawrence <lmaroney(a)um.edu> wrote: [...] > is there anyway to decipher that stuff? > > would be nice to know where the asswipe is posting from. I've included the headers of your post (as I can see them) which give clues about which news-server you posted to. The most reliable, and the only one you can depend on to be present from that selection and to give any real clue, is the Path: header - which shows that you posted to "hawaiiantel.net". The server a person posts to should also insert a header giving the 'complaints' or 'abuse' or other contact information - in your NSP's case that is the X-Complaints-To: header. If you want to complain about a particular poster, contact the NSP [News Service Provider] they use. Sometimes an NSP inserts an NNTP-Posting-Host: header that contains the IP address of the internet connection from which the post was sent to them; from that you can find the identity of the 'owner' of that IP number - usually an ISP - which will give you the country or state from which the post found its way onto 'the internet', or in the case of a few small local ISPs a slightly less vague location, but these days with public internet access points and mobile phones and satellites and so on, that isn't a good indicator of the sender's home base or even their location when the message was sent. Many reputable NSPs don't insert that header anyway. If you want to know where someone lives, ask them :)) -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~ |