Re: Origin of Newbie

In article <1128231806.67c34554c5b084162059233133016cfe@teranews> Phil DeMayo <flip1948@xxxxxxx> writes:
> On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 03:11:04 GMT, "*** T. Winter" <***.Winter@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >In article <1128218535.f940be0dded3d3a18725c827e1aa35f4@teranews> Phil DeMayo <flip1948@xxxxxxx> writes:
> >...
> > > The NNTP posting host is identical for all posts from the identities I
> > > listed. That means the posts are all coming from the same computer.
> >
> >It is likely but not necessarily so. IP addresses can be handed out in a
> >dynamic fashion. I.e., if you connect you may get an IP address that is
> >avvailable, not necessarily the same as the one you had before. Also you
> >may get the IP address the previously was in use on another system.
>
> Understood, but how likely is it that in a period of about three weeks
> 8 different identities posting to the same newsgroup would be assigned
> the same exact address?

No idea. I have done quite a bit of mathematics at university, but
statistics was not my strong point. There is strong circumstantial
evidence, indeed, but even that can give you the wrong answers.
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