On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 08:31, steven l. rubenstein wrote:
Thanks -- but how do I know (from the identifying user number) whether it is an AOL address? Sorry if this is an obvious question,
I recommend this page: http://www.arin.net/whois/
Paste in an IP address, it'll tell you what organization the network belongs to.
It can also be useful to do a reverse DNS lookup; on Unix you'd do this with the "host" or "nslookup" command... on at least some verions of Windows you can run "nslookup" from a command prompt.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)