For Bertie

Larry Dighera wrote:

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 07:26:14 -0500, "Viperdoc"
wrote in
:

Just from the learning perspective, what do you look at and how do you check
to see the origin of the post?



Look at the message header fields, specifically the 'Path:' and
'NNTP-Posting-Host:' fields.

Mr. Duniho provided these methods of viewing the message headers in MS
Outlook products:

Message-ID:
Haven't read news in Outlook. In Outlook Express, it's simply a
matter of choosing the "File/Properties..." menu item while the
message is selected, and then looking at the "Details" tab in that
dialog.

For Outlook, you might have to use the "View/Options..." menu item
instead; that's where you'd find message headers for email
messages anyway.

(A superior product for reading Usenet in my opinion is Forte Agent
available he http://www.forteinc.com/agent/download.php )
And I'll add that with Agent, the above instructions are replaced by
"press the 'H' key"


To find the domain name to which the IP address refers, MS Windows
users can open a Command window (Start/All
Programs/Accessories/Command Prompt), and at the DOS prompt type:
'nslookup 123.123.123.123' using the ip address in the
'NNTP-Posting-Host:' field in place of '123.123.123.123'.

Look up the registrant for that domain with a whois server:
http://www.internic.net/whois.html
http://www.allwhois.com/

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