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On 12 Aug 2005 09:01:36 -0700, Random Penguin staggered into the Black Sun and said:

Include context when posting to Usenet. That never-to-be-sufficiently damned G2 "permanent Alpha" excuse for an NNTP client doesn't do that by default. Get a Real Newsreader or cut-n-paste or figure out which things you have to click on to get context included. Context restored:

So far, nobody's said you were dishonest. What Stan wants is to see the actual legal language (or even the full name of whatever program you're running is.) Maybe the lawyers, for whatever reason, made it so that legally, your licenses are locked to a particular computer. If you circumvent that, you're legally in the wrong.0

Slow down there, cowboy. In which message-ID has Stan (or anybody) made "false accusations"?

Calling statements made on Usenet "libel" will get you laughed out of court, eh?1

Stan's not bound by Google's Terms of Use, since he's not using that POS G2 excuse for an NNTP client to post things to Usenet. Pick a different way to yap at him if you're gonna yap at him. His ISP may have relevant things in its TOS; go find which ISP he's using and look up its TOS if you're curious.

And just in case... strace. It'll generate a metric arseload of output, but redirect it to a file and look at it for whatever matches the key you're concerned about.

I think Peter T. Breuer was barking up the wrong badger hole when he said "it's the IP!"; machines can have no IP or an IP that changes every 2 hours with cable-DSL-dialup. My guess would be some sort of huge unique identifier built from PCI IDs, any serial#s in the ROM BIOS, and possibly the serial#s of any IDE (or SCSI) hard disks that are connected. The easiest way to find that stuff will be with strace and dogged persistence. If the people who wrote the code were *really* clever, you may need User-Mode Linux to figure out exactly what's up. HTH,

0 As usual, what's legal is orthogonal to what's *right*.

1 Otherwise, Gateway, HPCompaq, Dull, and 6 or 8 other companies who've made shoddy products and-or provided inept service could probably sue me for libel.

-- Matt GThere is no Darkness in Eternity-But only Light too dim for us to see Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin mail: TRAP + SPAN don't belong ----------------------------- penguins, is Tux." --MegaHAL