On Wednesday 20 June 2012, Bob Hoffman <bob at bobhoffman.com> wrote: > I got a spam today (from a yahoo server, surprise!) with nothing but > a single link. > > http:// 2927755261/ 2927755261 in hexadecimal is AE81FFFD. If you change this to AE.81.FF.FD and convert it back to decimal, you get 174.129.255.253, which is apparently the IP address that http://www.ip- adress.com/ip_tracer/2927755261 gave you. I don't know why Web browsers accept this format, and I haven't seen this trick in several years. -- Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca> "La Esperanta Civito ne rifuzas anticipe la kunlaboron de erarintoj, se ili konscias pri sia eraro." -- Heroldo Komunikas, n-ro 473.