[Info-vax] Any large VMS users in St. Helena ?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/6/18 3:15 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2018-12-06 kl. 20:57, skrev John Reagan:
> 
>>>> On 12/6/18 8:30 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 
>>>>> 1) St. Helena
>>>>> 2) China
>>>>> 3) Sweden
>>>>> 4) Puerto Rico
>>>>> 5) Finland
> 
> Doesn't matter what you search for, S:t Helena is almost always
> in second position. I tried "MVS", "Linux", "TCPIP" and some other
> computer related phrases. So, what was your point, Simon?
> 
> It it is also easy to find references like:
> 
> https://medium.com/@sangare/google-search-the-very-strange-case-of-tristan-da-cunha-st-helena-ad6e2d61028c 
> 
> 
> https://twitter.com/justindeed/status/933725222213177344
> 
> Anyway, this thread has nothing with VMS to do.
> 
>>
>> Does some VPN service have an exit point near St Helena?
>>
> 
> Doesn't have to be near St Helena, only to have a similar
> tcpip address range fooling the Google tools...
> 
> 

Based on IP address.  Now it all makes sense.

One of the laughs of the day for me is always to see where
Google thinks I am (I am sure it uses the IP address from
my ISP (Verizon) to decide what to tell me.  So far it has
been all across the state with a few even in other states.
Very seldom anywhere near where I actually live.  Like I
said, about as accurate and useful as Google searches.

bill

PS.  Tracing IP addresses doesn't work like on NCIS.  They
can't use it to track you down to the third table from the
left in the Starbucks on 5th Ave in NYC.