From: Andrew Stein <steinlink@gmail.com>
To: barriticus@gmail.com

me: can you use an ip address to determine anything useful about a person who uses it?
me: right
Andrew: if they did something illegal, you can subpoena the isp and get their name, address, etc
me: very well
Andrew: ips are dynamic, though - unless the poster did somethign illegal and you can get a subpoena, there's not terribly much you can do with it
Andrew: if they have access to teh server logs, then they can get the ip
Andrew: depends
me: is that something that a blog owner could get from someone leaving comments?
me: I guess
Andrew: their isp