From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 11:06:42 GMT-3
At 1:22 AM -0700 5/3/02, Jay Hennigan wrote:
>On Thu, 2 May 2002, Manny Gonzalez wrote:
>
>> Because I felt like it. Is there a problem with that? Why do you go
>> through the trouble of snooping where things come from in the first
>> place? Not everything is spam. Sometimes a URL is just a URL.
>>
>> That is the reason people do things like this beause of nosey people
>> :-)) Why not simply read the intended portion of the post... oh no,
>> someone has to make much more out of it than simply a JPG...
>>
>> Geesh, does it ever end around here? What a bunch of Sherlock Holmes!
>
>Well, one might think that here particularly, people might be a bit
>curious about IP addresses and their formats, and that here particularly
>people might be somewhat technical.
I have to share a more-or-less technical tale. On one of my flights
from the east coast to Cisco, the in-flight movie was Sandra Bullock
in "Network" (IIRC). I had an upgrade, so I could see most of the
audience -- and this was a flight to San Jose, not San Francisco.
High techie population present.
There's a scene in the movie that has a screen shot, in which there
is an "IP address" with 300-something in one octet. I remember doing
a doubletake, and seeing about half of the passengers do the same.
When I got to the meetings -- IIRC they were a review of the upcoming
Cisco University AVVID seminar -- Priscilla was also there. I
mentioned my experience, but she recounted that she had watched the
same movie a couple of nights before, but in a full-size movie
theater in San Jose. She recounted that on watching the same scene
with the bogus IP address, most of the audience broke up laughing.
>
>> I wonder why you went through the trouble of figuring out why I went
>> through the trouble. Was that you knocking at my firewall just this
>> afternoon with a code red keyfob? Hmmmm
>
>Not me. I did, out of curiosity, look at various truncations of the URL
>with a browser.
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