> Why the standard allows this is beyond me, other than the fact that >internally the computer stores the IP in a longword, so it's pretty easy to >get the resolver to support it. It's a favorite trick of spammers to attempt >to hide their true origin. Even more evil spammer crap here: http://www1.tmisnet.com/~strads/spamhunt/codetech.html ====================================================================== Observation attributed to Prof. Robert Wilensky of the University of California at Berkeley: "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."