Exactly. I almost mentioned that in my original post.
> (anything beyond continental accuracy cannot be
> guaranteed, at least for an end-user without access to
> additional network information).
Not even that is guaranteed. I have a cow-orker who's sister in law works for an arabian bank in its NYC office. Their address space was allocated by RIPE (european equivalent of ARIN), registered to a Saudi postal address, and physically exists in NY.
> second, to determine your IP address from your messages
> is not possible in some cases and not foolproof in all
> cases.
heh. you have a flair for understatement.
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