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Old 11-30-2006, 05:52 AM   #145
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Originally Posted by William Moates
Great idea, sonybuff!

If the host computer is dialing the Internet via modem, it reports the phone number from which the computer is calling.
How would it do that? A program could probably find out, if the computer was using "dial-up networking", the number that it was dialling to reach the Internet, but I don't believe that any mechanism exists for discovering the phone number of the line it's dialling out on, does it?
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