Dakkan has pretty much answered everything.
Both websites and users when connected to the internet have IP addresses. Most users have an IP address that is allocated to them from their internet provider.
Oddworld-Web's IP address for example is 203.202.16.55 (but with it you won't see my actual site, some sites you can view through the IP address).
But only myself and Sydney can view the IP addresses. This tells us where a user is posting from and we can use this if a member is troublesome or if we suspect people of having multiple user names we can check this based on the IP address. We are also able to ban people from posting based on their IP address.
Abe Babe...
[ August 14, 2001: Message edited by: Abe Babe ]
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