On 9/11/2012 2:03 PM, telsar wrote:
> I spent a while searching about and can find nothing that says that the
> NNTP-Posting-Host is anything but the server address injecting the msg
> into the usenet system. I see references to using this IP addr to
> contact the host for a log review using the Message-ID to find who
> posted, but thats all I could find.
Way back in the day when usenet was accessible only from unix shell
accounts, the nntp posting host nomenclature, and the advice you
quote, made sense. Now, for those of us who use newsreaders, our own
pc is the nntp posting host. For those who use google groups, the
nntp posting host is some server at google that takes whatever
people have entered into the web interface, and posts it to an nntp
server.
> I see many Usenet posts claiming to use it for more, but they are not
> credible.
It's not used consistently, either. Google uses it to identify the
source ip of messages. Homer Wilson Smith, who hosts a free ars/act
nntp server at Lightlink, shows another lightlink server as the
posting host. He added a "X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host" to show the
source ip of messages posted via lightlink.
> John: If you look at your own posted msgs using Google Groups, does it
> have your real ip address in the headers?
Only if I post via the google groups web interface (which is what
Steve Layton/Truthseeker does). In that case, google adds the
indformation. When I post from
eternal-september.org, since
eternal-september does not include my ip address (at least not in
plain text), google has no way of knowing it. Whether or not your ip
address appears in your posts depends only on how you post.
> I know Google has my real IP since I can see it when I am logged into
> gmail, but thats not what ends up in my posts to GG.
When you say "posts to google groups", do you mean posts made from
the google groups web interface, or do you mean posts of yours that
you view via the web interface, but that originated somewhere else
(such as
eternal-september.org)?
You could create a one-time-only throwaway google account, post a
message via the google groups web interface to alt.test, and look at
the headers in that message. You will find it will show your ip
address at the time of posting the message.
Putzboi, or Gregory Hall as he sometimes calls himself, is a
long-time troll who probably realizes that this is indeed the case,
and the claims he is making about Steve Layton/Truthseeker are
completely FOS. But he makes FOS claims anyway because it is the
only way he knows to gain some attention. The possibility that some
naive newcomer might post using google groups believing it conceals
source ip addresses is of no concern to him.
Accept Putzboi's advice at your peril.
John