re: Not tearing into anyone actually.
Hello Art,
It's a simple cut and paste job of the number found at the bottom of all posts here into a IP locator.
Some are very good and give very detailed location information.
But, you don't need to do it if other have. The First post in this thread is from a person at Ed's IP address. But, it was signed as if it was ER who posted and this is simply wrong.