Sure bet the "EOP" was jerking Softwar's chain, observing one or two levels deeper what he reports he was getting from his ISP. Such reconnaissance by fire is customary practice, according to multi-level logs of the snoopers prowling the finer-grained log levels down to what semi-skilled ISPs are able to keep track of, report on, and fend the prying devils/customers off with. Watch out, though, for the deepwatchers of the recon teams sent out as freshmeat from compsec training bases of the infrastructure protection farms, some working for, running ISPs. Some of the recon by fire teams are bait the CI meanies use to snare those working both sides, you know, the venerated old salts "who set up Arpanet" and their hotshot inheritors at the best universities and tanks in the country convinced they know what's best for the churchgoers of techno future. Software mentioned the name of one of them advising on how to do this, though it's not clear that Smith knew who he was inadverdently passing over while he was avidly trying to catch mechanical rabbits sent out to run the inbred speedsters ragged chasing easy prey, not knowing, not caring, they're on a track, just displaying they're trained to hang in there in sniffing range of the bunny's ass: Brown, Foster, Podesta, Hillary, Bill. EOP is not only what it's reported to be. Nor is any address that's readily traceable. Onion layered they are, more than NRL knows. Bet Anonymizer is not only what it's reported to be, that is, the semi-sharp operators don't know what it's being used to onion. Are remailers, recon by fire. Like this? Is strong encryption the answer? Right, peddle that.