In article ,
Mike Marron writes:
For the rest of the happy group assembled, here is an example of how
"Art Kramer" formats his posts....

Subject: Little friend takes big brother home.
From: (Autocollimator)
Date: 10/29/03 6:48 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:


Now here is an example of how "Autocollimator" formats his posts.....


Subject: Little friend takes big brother home.
From: (ArtKramr)
Date: 10/29/03 11:21 AM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:


In addition to the formatting styles that are *exactly* the same,
interesting that Kramer and "Autocollimator" messages both
originate from an AOL account as well.

There's only one problem with that, Mike. Autocollimater's posts are
coming through nntp (Net News Transport Protocol) Server
,
and Art's are coming through nntp server mb-m10.aol.com.
AOL, like everybody else, has their News Servers set up to handle a
particular set of POP (Points of Presense), and, therefore, service a
particular geographic area. The area serviced by an nntp server is
large enough that, say, calling a POP in an adjacent locale will, by
and large, have you posting your stuff through the same server. So
what those message IDs are telling us is that Art and Autocollimater
may well be in the same Time Zone, but they aren't near each other.

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