OT gmail alert -- spam or real?

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Roger <arelem at bigpond.com> writes:
> If you are uncertain do a whois search on the email address but don't be 
> surprised if its Indonesia, nigeria, US, etc.
> http://www.ip-adress.com/whois/205.188.168.107
> has helped me on many occasions.

Or you can do it yourself by checking the registration database for the
IP address block via "whois": 

     $ whois 205.188.168.107
     [Querying whois.arin.net]
     [whois.arin.net]

     OrgName:    America Online, Inc 
     OrgID:      AMERIC-59
     Address:    22080 Pacific Blvd
     City:       Sterling
     StateProv:  VA
     PostalCode: 20166
     Country:    US

     NetRange:   205.188.0.0 - 205.188.255.255 
     CIDR:       205.188.0.0/16 
     NetName:    AOL-DTC
     NetHandle:  NET-205-188-0-0-1
     Parent:     NET-205-0-0-0-0
     NetType:    Direct Assignment
     NameServer: DNS-01.NS.AOL.COM
     NameServer: DNS-02.NS.AOL.COM
     Comment:    
     RegDate:    1998-04-18
     Updated:    1998-04-27

     RTechHandle: AOL-NOC-ARIN
     RTechName:   America Online, Inc. 
     RTechPhone:  +1-703-265-4670
     RTechEmail:  domains at aol.net 

     # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2010-05-06 20:00
     # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
     #
     # ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
     # available at https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html

-- 
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3
non-overlapping WIFI channels?