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From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David Tamkin)
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 813, Message 6 of 8


Peter da Silva wrote in volume 10, issue 606:

| The locations of most users can be found by examining comp.mail.maps:
| the location of most sites are given, with street address and latitude
| and longitude. These maps are updated and posted monthly.

Well, that probably holds for .edu sites, but you're best off checking
Organization: lines or .signatures.  There are people who have remote
logins to machines at the home office, and those of us who use the net
on our own time actually place TELEPHONE CALLS (shock!) to *other*
locations (fright!) to use a computer that is on the net rather than
sitting at a terminal that is hard-wired to one.

I have submitted to this forum from machines in Washington, D.C. and
Cupertino, California.  I could submit from one in Columbus, Ohio, and
until a couple weeks ago could have used one in Sparkill, New York.
Until last April I could have subscribed to DASNet and posted from a
system in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  Where I really am located in
northeastern Illinois, there are three in Chicago, one in Villa Park,
one in Palatine, and this one I am currently using in Wheeling.  For
nostalgia's sake, I'll include a defunct machine in Homer Township,
Will County, Illinois, from which I used to submit.

If by "most" Peter means "strictly more than 50%" I guess he's right,
but as a mapping algorithm I don't think it will be correct often
enough.  Anyone mapping by that theory, please pretend that I always
post from gagme; you'll be off by a negligible quarter-mile.


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