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Originally Posted by Matth
[snip] In NTL CABLE, you have your MAC address, and your typically 99% consistent IP address.
In NTL (or any other) dialup, authentication (probably wrong to call it log in) is performed, so they must have the capability to log which user an IP was assigned to at that time, to be able to do anything about abuse.
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So it may be relevant that I'm using an NTL cable (telephone) connection *and* NTL dialup.
Incidentally I'm still getting lots of messages purporting to have come from my (virus-free) PC and "returned" to me as undeliverable for various reasons -- mainly exceeding the recipient's mailbox quota. So no doubt NTL soon will be cutting me off and demanding that I debug my computer again. And there seems to be nothing I can do about it apart from changing my e-mail address, which for various reasons would be incredibly inconvenient.
The whole thing seems wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, though, even for all you tecchie chaps.
Cheers!
Brian