[rescue] Re: Determining the country of orgin for IP address(es)

[Larry Snyder]

Or they could have chosen to not publish it at all.  The tools are
available.  Gift horse <-> mouth ?
-ls-


George Adkins <george at webbastard.org> wrote:
> > > > publicly available on our web site in Excel format
> > >
> > > They would be possibley useful if they were available in an open, docu-
> > > mented, non-proprietary format that I actually had a *hope* of reading.
> >
> > The Excel formats have been documented and reverse engineered well
> > enough for two free programs to read and write Excel file very well in
> > my experience:
> >
> Sure, I can download OpenOffice, install it, (on a machine running X) then 
> download the file, open it, and then save it into a comma-delimited text 
> file, so that I can use it on a machine where I need it ( Like a firewall or 
> something).
> 
> Or, they could have simply published it as a comma delimited file in the 
> first place.  One that can not only be opened by Excel like a spreadsheet, 
> but which the rest of the world's programs could access and manipulate 
> (mangle) to create useful data.
> 
> George
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