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by bigfatkitten 162 days ago
It did indeed, though people used to hide their IP addresses through various means, and so CTCP was usually a sure fire winner.

Most cheap modems seemed to ignore the required 1 second (IIRC) delay. Well-heeled users who could afford U.S. Robotics et al were safe, winmodem users were not.