Monday, October 25, 2004

I must be doing something right (part 2)

So, a few days back, this comment shows up in response to an earlier post. Unfortunately, Haloscan doesn't have an easy way to tell you which post a comment was in response to and I don't feel like searching for it. In any case, the comment has nothing to do with the post anyway, but is merely a poor lost little troll who thinks he is being clever. The post was made under the name "your enemy" and no email address or URL was provided. He or she writes:
Are you fat radar rider? You remind me of someone I knew once. He was a very lonely, perverted individual, who got his kicks by hitting on my little sisters (ages 13 and 15 years old). He started them on a path to destruction, and I hold him responsible. Are you that person radar rider?

This would be amusing if it weren't so pathetic. One cool thing about Haloscan is that it records the IP address of each commenter. The address this comment was made from is 62.225.112.236. A reverse DNS lookup reveals this information:
OrgName: RIPE Network Coordination Centre
OrgID: RIPE
Address: Singel 258
Address: 1016 AB
City: Amsterdam
StateProv:
PostalCode:
Country: NL

ReferralServer: whois://whois.ripe.net:43

NetRange: 62.0.0.0 - 62.255.255.255
CIDR: 62.0.0.0/8
NetName: RIPE-C3
NetHandle: NET-62-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Allocated to RIPE NCC
NameServer: NS-PRI.RIPE.NET
NameServer: SEC1.APNIC.NET
NameServer: SEC3.APNIC.NET
NameServer: NS2.NIC.FR
NameServer: SUNIC.SUNET.SE
NameServer: AUTH03.NS.UU.NET
NameServer: TINNIE.ARIN.NET
Comment: These addresses have been further assigned to users in
Comment: the RIPE NCC region. Contact information can be found in
Comment: the RIPE database at http://www.ripe.net/whois
RegDate: 1997-04-25
Updated: 2004-03-16

It looks like RIPE is not itself an ISP, but rather a coordination center that allocates Internet resources like IP addresses and such to ISP's and others. I can't tell if the commenter was posting from RIPE itself or from an ISP who receives addresses from RIPE. In any event, since RIPE is in Amsterdam, it's a pretty good bet "your enemy" is somewhere in Europe.

To answer the question: Much as I would have liked to have corrupted your sisters by making them realize that socialism is a failed ideology and that American-style capitalism is the one true way, it wasn't me. Sorry to disappoint you. However, if you provide me with their email addresses, I'll be sure to rectify the situation.

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