Interesting Insane_goth! Hope a good law will end all this sick stuff anyway!
europa is bussy with such a law but the usa is bussy with a foolish law about this that you have to give each spammer a message first, that you dont want that…wow thats totally bullshit!
Jeff
Sorry to ask stupid questions. But what is the difference between an Email adress or URL to an IP? (Besides being numbers and addresses). Why is an IP address so important. It’s just a numbner that leads to no location.
I get not to many unwanted Emails. I can’t get rid of, get your free xxx tablets… It drives me insane! I keep blocking the Emails and the problem is only minimal now.
Technodreamer 
So the free xxx tablets aren’t part of your unwanted email? 
Cheeky! How would you know if they were free or not?!
Technodreamer
ok… lets see,.
A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is simply a link to a page on the world wide web.
An IP (Internet Protocol) is the UNIQUE number given to you when you connect to the internet via your ISP (internet service provider). This allows you to be identified by any site you visit.
It can also allow Police to trace you should you commit a crime online, since the number is unique and is registered to your ISP.
there are two types of IP dynamic & static.
a dynamic IP changes everytime you connect to the internet
where as a static IP is one for an always on serivce that you stay connected to all the time.
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The mods admins of this site could look up my IP for this post and tell you Which ISP i use by doing a look up, if i miss behaved and report me for beinga bad boy 
neways hope that answers your question a little.
The ip adress is very diffrent from an email but i dont think i am the one to describe the diffrence, maybe one of the mods will give you bar far a clearer explation than i can.
The ip adress is like your street adress but on the interent. it can tell people who have the know hows where you are from. It can also be a very dangours tool as hackers can use it to get into your computer, it can also be used as a tracer for certian people to follow your tracks around the internet. There are many more uses for the ip, networking balh blah blah but i wont go there.
There are programs now that scramable your ip, mind you nothing is perfect.
Timeless has it here; An IP address, I think, is like your home address.
Having a street address doesn’t give a burglar access to your home, but once he’s there, he can see if the front door is locked, if any windows are open, left the patio door unlatched, etc.
Makes a nice analogy, anyway.
hey thanx lol 
I’ll add what little I know to the answers.
I’ll start with the obvious:
A URL consist of a domain name; like “LD4all.com”
LD4all = the domain name
.com = is simply the extension (which also stands for commercial)
an email address also uses a domain name, but it is preceded by the @ symbol.
an email address looks like “myname@domainname.com”
Now, this may confuse you a little . . but all domain names also have an unique IP address. When you request a URL from your Web Browser, the Web Browser talks to your ISP. The ISP has what is called “DNS servers” (Domain Name System.) These DNS servers find the URLs corresponding IP address.
Why? so you can type easy to remember words and letters like “LD4all.com” instead of having to remember our IP address.
Can you imagine trying to remember a number like “192.168.255.123” each time you wanted to visit a different website?
That’s what our friends URLs and DNS servers are for. 
You could type each websites IP into your Web Browser’s address window and get the same results.
For example: you could go to 216.239.51.100/ and you reach the same place.
However, not all IP’s are computers running “web servers”. The IP “216.239.51.100” is the address to google’s web servers.
This IP that Timeless posted is probably an IP of an individual just like you and me. This person probably doesn’t have a “web server” running on their computer. So, you if type this number into your Web Browser you would only get an error message.
I hope this 
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Ok thanks everybody. So if I just build on our analogy. The URl or Email address represents a name of a person for example. The DNS then tells you that persons address in IP. So how can an IP be used for hacking or tracing someone. I suppose the hacker hacks when a webpage you’ve requested is sent, he quikly follows it, and gets into your computer. A tracer involves your ISP doesn’t it? They record where your request comes from etc.
Technodreamer
He. I worked out how to get IP’s in dos. I found the IP of this website and stuff. Mind you I would never dream of using someones IP or address against them. I’m good when it comes to remembering numbers like this.
Technodreamer
sadly the methods are much simpler than that.
With a simple tool a hacker can get into a site grab the “ip logs” most big sites have, they then have a list of IP’s. all they have to do then is put the in a “list” of people to attempt to hack.
They use programs that run automatically. The only defence against such an attack is a good uptodate firewall.