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Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2006-05-23 13:43
The addition of the ISP location on our posts is fantastic! Thanks, Mark, for your continuing improvement of this board. What you do here is (or should be) a model for the online music community.
Susan
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-05-23 13:53
It would be better if they were accurate though - mine's several thousand miles away from where I live.
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2006-05-23 13:55
I dislike them. I choose to reveal my true identity and location in my signature; that is my choice.
I understand Mark to take a different view, and as the owner of the board it is his right to do so.
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If there are so many people on this board unwilling or unable to have a civil and balanced discussion about important issues, then I shan't bother to post here any more.
To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2006-05-23 14:26
I also don't like it. Regardless of what it actually means, it gives the impression that I'm from a certain city in my country which I am not. If it would say the city I live in that would be ok with me (although I prefer it wouldn't do that too), I just don't like it that it shows a different city, which is why after several years in this forum I made a signature.
Edit: OK now after I posted I see it was changed, so I can get rid of my signature.
Post Edited (2006-05-23 14:29)
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2006-05-23 14:49
clarnibass wrote:
> Edit: OK now after I posted I see it was changed, so I can get
> rid of my signature.
No, since you're on a dynamic IP number - a city, possibly different, might show up later. It depends on the routing that you're taking that day.
When I post from home (Novi, MI) it shows me as posting from Chicago - a significant difference!
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Author: Bennett ★2017
Date: 2006-05-23 14:52
Thanks for adding this. Many posts say "here it costs...; here we do...; here common practice is... with no explanation of where 'here' is. At least we now have some idea.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2006-05-23 15:30
...I can still choose an anonymous proxy which then tells everyone I'm from someplace else.
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Ben
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-05-23 15:44
Just checking to see where I'm being routed from.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2006-05-23 15:49
proxy.aol.com
Hmm. Half the world is surfin' there. ;-)
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Ben
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-05-23 15:52
I'm a lot nearer Switzerland than the US.
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Author: joannew
Date: 2006-05-23 19:12
let's see how this works...
not bad, got the city right, if not the arrondisement!
Post Edited (2006-05-23 19:13)
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Author: donald
Date: 2006-05-23 19:14
this town of "proxy" where half the world is surfing, where is it? here the eastern swell sucks and the west coast is onshore for the rest of the week, maybe it's time for a road trip......
donald
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Author: Tim P
Date: 2006-05-23 20:08
how interesting.
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Author: Don Poulsen
Date: 2006-05-23 20:19
I'm posting simply because I need to find out where I am.
Now, if I could only use this to tell me where I am in a piece of music, or better yet, where I should be.
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Author: Danny Boy
Date: 2006-05-23 20:19
Posting purely to see where I'm supposed to be...
Oh lord, Milton Keynes of all places....bleurgh!
Post Edited (2006-05-23 20:20)
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2006-05-23 20:22
Milton Keynes
Er...is it Milton (Friedman) or (John Maynard) Keynes? Sounds like an economically interesting town. ![[tongue]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie6.gif)
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Ben
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Author: Wendy
Date: 2006-05-23 20:30
OK, can't fight off the curiosity any longer. Where am I?
Edit: Only 500 miles off. Really Buffalo, NY
Post Edited (2006-05-23 20:31)
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2006-05-23 22:02
OMG I am in Proxy, too.
Maybe it is short for Proximity.
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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Author: Mike Hancock
Date: 2006-05-23 22:02
After everyone else, I have to try it too!!
Most of the time I know where I am in the music . . . if I don't lose count
Mike Hancock
Oh Look!!!! I'm a proxy (patsy?) too.
Post Edited (2006-05-23 22:04)
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Author: Clarinetgirl06
Date: 2006-05-23 22:21
Checking mine. This is kind of neat.
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Author: ElBlufer
Date: 2006-05-23 22:27
ok, lets see what it says....
EDIT: not too bad....it got my country right :D...
My Setup:
R13 Clarinet (Ridenour Lyrique as my backup/marching instrument)
Walter Grabner K11 mouthpiece
Rico Reserve 3.5's
Bonade ligature
Post Edited (2006-05-23 22:28)
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Author: Morrigan
Date: 2006-05-23 22:30
Where am I?! Oh, that's right. I'm in Fern Tree Gully. NOT! I don't even know where that is!
Post Edited (2006-05-23 22:31)
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Author: 3dogmom
Date: 2006-05-24 02:14
Okay, Mark, I need to ask:
Why do some postings not get more specific than "United States"? Perhaps I don't understand what this really means? Thank you.
Sue Tansey
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2006-05-24 02:19
3dogmom wrote:
> Okay, Mark, I need to ask:
> Why do some postings not get more specific than "United
> States"?
Because the IP number assigned and the database I do the lookup in aren't more specific. It's about 97% right on the country and about 60% right guessing the city if the IP number isa one where that info is available. For a non-trivial amount of money I can get it 99% right on the country and 75% right on the city.
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Author: CPW
Date: 2006-05-24 02:28
I think mine is in the PITS.
Post edit: Well it is only off by a few parsecs.
Against the windmills of my mind
The jousting pole splinters
Post Edited (2006-05-24 02:29)
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Author: Tom A
Date: 2006-05-24 02:53
This is a bit like Googling your own name, isn't it?
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Could you play that part a little more greenie-orange? - Olivier Messiaen
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Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2006-05-24 05:01
Okay, let's see where mine is (since Mark hasn't closed this thread, yet ![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif) ).
Ah (editing now), that's pretty close, about ten miles away.
Steve Epstein
Post Edited (2006-05-24 05:03)
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Author: Dominic
Date: 2006-05-24 06:45
hello! from......
Dominic
Cardiff, UK
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2006-05-24 08:07
I continue to be mystified by the codes in UK addresses.
B8 Reigate?
F2 Winchester?
I6 Milton Keynes?
They aren't postcodes, nor car registration areas, nor anything else Joe Public might recognise.
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Ben - Milton Keynes as the city of the economic middle way is a joke that was played out long ago!
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If there are so many people on this board unwilling or unable to have a civil and balanced discussion about important issues, then I shan't bother to post here any more.
To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2006-05-24 08:21
Ben - Milton Keynes as the city of the economic middle way is a joke that was played out long ago!
<hangs head>
Sorry, didn't know. (You probably wouldn't know our towns with funny names either...)
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Ben
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2006-05-24 08:30
Ben - on the contrary, I know Switzerland rather well. The mountainous bits, at any rate. Not familiar with Schlieren; have just had to look it up in Wikipedia. Seems it's a great place to buy a used car or go indoor climbing....
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If there are so many people on this board unwilling or unable to have a civil and balanced discussion about important issues, then I shan't bother to post here any more.
To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.
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Author: buedsma
Date: 2006-05-24 09:56
let's see
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-05-24 10:00
David, at least you're only one county out in your ISP (Surrey), I'm a whole continent out!
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