[H-GEN] dotless ip notation

David Wood dwood at PIsoftware.com
Thu Jan 20 19:40:10 EST 2000


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On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 01:58:21PM +1000, Opec Kemp wrote:
> Yeah this will only work for IE. I think they *might* have fixed this problem. Usually spammers
> uses this to hide thier IP address (in the vain hope that you won't be able to figured out who to complain to).
> 
> There is a formula on how to produce this IP address but I can't find the site now :( Maybe someone else on this list 
> know where to find it 

Macs used to store their IPs this way - in a hex notation representing
the address as one striing, IIRC.  It is equivalent, but certainly less
readable.

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