On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 06:15:08PM -0000, John Levine wrote: > > >The problem with MaxMind (and other geoip databases I've seen that do > >Lat/Long as well as Country / State / Town) is that the > >data doesn't include uncertainty, so it returns "38.0/-97.0" rather than > >"somewhere in a 3000 mile radius circle centered on > >38.0/-97.0". > > > >Someone should show them RFC 1876 as an example of better practice. > > Oh, heck, you know better than that. You can put in all the flags and > warnings you want, but if it returns an address, nitwits will show up > at the address with guns. > > Bodies of water probably are the least bad alternative. I wonder if > they're going to hydrolocate all of the unknown addresses, or only the > ones where they get publically shamed.
I personal favor setting the generic location as a certain set of roundish holes in the ground up in the northern plains. Let the government raid itself for once. --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
