Thanks, Alan. You are absolutely right, we are not using the NNTP-Posting-Host header for obtaining the IP address.
The Python list is unique among the lists that we have handled so far, in that it has a cross-posting mechanism with a net news. Hence, it seems we are getting many more wrong locations here than any other email list maps we've done so far. We've done them for Linux kernel, postresql, apache, tomcat, etc. You can find them by searching their names in the 'find' box. Not many people reported wrong locations on those maps. So, we'll have to go back and fix the script that is extracting the IP address (which is written in Python, btw). Let me know if someone is interested in taking a look at it and I can post it somewhere. On Nov 7, 2005, at 2:32 PM, Alan Kennedy wrote: > [Alan Kennedy] >>> So presumably "chcgil" indicates you're in Chicago, Illinois? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Yes, but why, then, is my name logged into Mountain View, CA? > > Presumably the creators of the map have chosen to use a mechanism other > than NNTP-Posting-Host IP address to geolocate posters. > > Claire, what mechanism did you use? > >> That justifies my claim of "all the more stupid", doesn't it? > > Well, to me it just says that the map creation software has some bugs > that need fixing. > > -- > alan kennedy > ------------------------------------------------------ > email alan: http://xhaus.com/contact/alan > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
