troublesome false negative

[David Relson]

At 07:53 PM 11/5/02, Matthias Andree wrote:

>On Tue, 05 Nov 2002, David Relson wrote:
>
> > At 07:34 PM 11/5/02, Matthias Andree wrote:
> >
> > >BTW, your Message-IDs make up for interesting side effects in the lexer:
> > >The first part -- 4.3.2.7 -- is considered an IP...
> > >
> > >get_token: 1 'message-id'
> > >get_token: 1 '4.3.2.7'
> > >get_token: 1 'c3a9e0'
> >
> > Sounds like the Eudora version number.  Hope 4.3.2.7 isn't part of an
> > Pacific Rim address block;  I hear lots of ISP's block mail from Asia.
>
>I don't think so, the US have reserved themselves a much bigger piece of
>the IPv4 cake than others.
>
>| http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space:
>
>Address 
>
>Block   Date     Registry - Purpose                  Notes or 
>Reference
>-----   ------   ---------------------------         ------------------ 
 >
>...
>004/8   Dec 92   Bolt Beranek and Newman 
>Inc.
>...
>
>| whoisi 4.3.2.7:
>
>Genuity GNTY-4-0 (NET-4-0-0-0-1)
>                                   4.0.0.0 - 4.255.255.255
>GTE Intelligent Network Services GTEINS-0-08 (NET-4-3-0-0-1)
>                                   4.3.0.0 - 4.3.3.255
>
># ARIN Whois database, last updated 2002-11-04 19:05
>(this one is handled by Verizon)


That's a relief.  The good guy's control the ip address (version number) of 
my favorite MUA.