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To: GOPJ
I don't know who he is or how many people he is or whether he is legitimate or a prankster but the id cave_of_darkness that is posting to daleel's yahoogroup is posting from IP address 195.229.241.164

That IP address is assigned to an ISP run by the phone company in the United Arab Emirates, in Dubai. The IP address is also consistent with those posted on the previous day, which would indicate that it is not a dialup IP but a static or semi-static IP address (i.e. a business or an internet cafe perhaps).

Normally when you dial up you are assigned an IP address randomly from a pool of available IP addresses and it is rare to get the same IP address consistently. If you are on DSL, cable modem, ISDN, T1, or other always-on connection, you tend to retain the lease on the IP address for a set period of time. Either way, the ISP should be able to track the IP address to a user.

Back in early November Sabertooth started archives of Daleel's postings. Daleel was using IP address 194.170.173.50 which was also in Dubai.

See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1014397/posts?page=24#24

Yahoo, Hotmail, and the other freemail providers are nice enough to include the originating IP address in their headers :)

Header of Message
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From cave_of_darkness@y... Sun Dec 28 00:06:40 2003
Return-Path:
X-Sender: cave_of_darkness@y...
X-Apparently-To: daleelalmojahid@yahoogroups.com
Received: (qmail 60097 invoked from network); 28 Dec 2003 08:06:39 -0000
Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172)
by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 Dec 2003 08:06:39 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO n24.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.80)
by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Dec 2003 08:06:39 -0000
Received: from [66.218.66.120] by n24.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Dec 2003 08:06:39 -0000
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 08:06:39 -0000
To: daleelalmojahid@yahoogroups.com
Message-ID:
User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Length: 17971
X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster
X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 66.218.66.80
From: "cave_of_darkness"
X-Originating-IP: 195.229.241.164
Subject: The Will of Muhammed bin Shathaf ash-Shihri
X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=170343621
X-Yahoo-Profile: cave_of_darkness

Result of WHOIS on IP address 195.229.241.164
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Trying whois -h whois.ripe.net 195.229.241.164
% This is the RIPE Whois server.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
%
% Rights restricted by copyright.
% See http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyright.html
inetnum: 195.229.0.0 - 195.229.255.255
netname: AE-EMIRNET-971125
descr: Emirates Telecommunications Corporation
descr: Internet Service provider
country: AE
admin-c: AH1223-RIPE
admin-c: SAS88-RIPE
tech-c: SMA3-RIPE
status: ALLOCATED PA
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower: ETISALAT-MNT
mnt-routes: ETISALAT-MNT
changed: hostmaster@ripe.net 19971125
changed: hostmaster@ripe.net 20021230
source: RIPE
route: 195.229.240.0/22
descr: Etisalat
origin: AS5384
mnt-by: ETISALAT-MNT
changed: noc@emix.net.ae 20030630
source: RIPE
person: Sultan Al Shamsi
address: Emirates Telecommunication Corporation
address: P O Box 1150, Dubai, UAE
phone: +971 4 2025510
fax-no: +971 4 2948300
e-mail: sultan@uaenic.ae
nic-hdl: SAS88-RIPE
mnt-by: ETISALAT-MNT
changed: sultan@uaenic.ae 20010417
changed: sultan@uaenic.ae 20020714
source: RIPE
person: Abdulla Hashim
address: Emirates Telecommunication Corporation
address: P.O. Box 1150, Dubai, UAE
phone: +971 4 2025510
fax-no: +971 4 2948300
e-mail: hashim@emirates.net.ae
nic-hdl: AH1223-RIPE
mnt-by: ETISALAT-MNT
changed: fareedak@emirates.net.ae 19981026
changed: sultan@uaenic.ae 20010428
changed: sultan@uaenic.ae 20020714
source: RIPE
person: Saleem Mohd Albalooshi
address: Emirates Telecommunications Corporation.
address: P.O. Box 1150, Dubai, UAE
phone: +971 4 2022959
fax-no: +971 4 2228884
e-mail: saleemmb@emirates.net.ae
nic-hdl: SMA3-RIPE
mnt-by: ETISALAT-MNT
changed: fareedak@emirates.net.ae 19981027
changed: sultan@uaenic.ae 20020714
source: RIPE

4,418 posted on 12/29/2003 10:09:06 PM PST by StillProud2BeFree
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To: StillProud2BeFree

4,430 posted on 12/30/2003 12:41:58 AM PST by LayoutGuru2 (Call me paranoid but finding '/*' inside this comment makes me suspicious)
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