[thelist] anyone know how to convert http://3518332311/ into something mean ingful? ingful?

On Sunday, 8/8/1999, at 01:35 PM, Scott Dexter wrote:
>I can't remember how, but there is a conversion from a dot noted address
>(such as 207.193.163.1) to a decimal representation (like 3518332311).
>Anyone know what it is?

I'm pretty sure the dotless IPs are 32-bit numbers. Every character on 
Windows systems can be represented by a number, and I think that's what 
they're doing there.

Use can this to convert them:

http://www.samspade.org/classic/

You can also submit the entire spam including headers to spamcop:

http://spamcop.net/

It will weed out and resolve the dotless IPs in spams for you, and give you 
the correct abuse address to tell on the spammer.

99% of the spams I get with dotless IPs resolve to angelfire.com's free web 
site service, and the spam sites are usually down within 24 hrs of reporting.

If you want to get back at the spammers some more, go to their spam sites 
and see if they have any means of contact. Many will have forms that people 
fill out. View source to see whose formail.cgi they are plundering, and 
many times you can find a hidden form element with their contact email address.

I frequently report the abuse of the cgi-bin and the contact address as 
well (sometimes I also send mail to the contact address using my own 
throwaway hotmail account, to tell them to stop spamming, and sometimes 
when I'm bored and sadistic, I'll express interest and try to get more 
contact info from them, for more spammer hilarity, check this page out: 
http://www.sonic.net/~pvmtsaw/gonad/).

One last thing, if when viewing source, you see a bunch of javascript 
goopelygoop, it was generated by a program called haywire that can hide the 
source for a page. Spammers do this so you won't find their contact info in 
forms, but the source can be easily decoded at this page:

http://hesketh.com/schampeo/spam-l/decode_haywyre.html

Hope that helps, personally I've been a spamcop member and user since the 
beginning of this year, and it's great.

Matt