Karl Levinson [x y] mvp wrote:
> d0x <dan@no.spam> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.07.17.22.47.16.464381@no
.spam>...
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> Have you ever actually done that?  In my experience, most ISPs won't
> give that information or talk to you unless you're a law enforcement
> person with a subpoena from a court in a country that the ISP
> recognizes, and there isn't any language barrier, and you've contacted
> them soon enough for them to preserve whatever logs they may or may
> not have.  Even then, there is a fair chance that what you'll find
> isn't a perpetrator, but a virus-infected computer with a hidden proxy
> or botnet running on it, or something similar.
I have done it.  You email them your logs and 2 times out of 5 they nab
the person.

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