On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jon Camfield wrote: > > > Awesome tool (now; when do you email server->geolocate->geocode->google > > map my inbox? joking. Mostly.) > > David and I talked about this. In theory, given a free geoIP dataset > (even just a rough one) one could be able to extract the MTA (the mail > transport agent, the server that first received the email to be relaied) > from the email message headers and then geolocate the message. > > The problem is that such geolocation is pathetically bad, by design. > > For example[...] > > One could, in theory, toy with the various time zones to at least rule > out co-location with their MTA... but still, the granularity is pretty > bad. > > If you have any other idea we're all ears but so far it seems not only > hard to execute (no free batch-capable geoip services are available) but > even hardly useful, given the data to work from. Well, there's the 80% (ok, 60%?) solution which would be to scan for a vcard or regex the last few lines of uncommented/indented text for something that "looks like" an address, and for the many mails that fail to have either of those, do a very basic TLD->country of origin connection (just seeing which countries the majority of my email comes from would be ... interesting). -- > Stefano Mazzocchi > Digital Libraries Research Group Research Scientist > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > E25-131, 77 Massachusetts Ave skype: stefanomazzocchi > Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA email: stefanom at mit . edu > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > -- Jon Camfield http://www.JonCamfield.com MA, Elliott School of International Affairs in International Science and Technology Policy RPCV 2002-04, Ministry of Education, Kingston, Jamaica PGP Key: http://joncamfield.com/pgp.key.txt
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