Two stupid ip questions;

Simon Hogg s.hogg@ic.ac.uk
Tue, 1 Jun 1999 06:58:08 -0400


>Why, you ask, would anyone give their IP like that? Certain versions of IE4
>would take any IP given in decimal form as in the intranet zone, therefore
>bypassing most security.

That explains why the only place I've seen it is in spam messages.



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