Argh! Not the "IP for unique votes" cargo-cult junk again! How many times do we need to go through this?
Repeat after me:
- An IP address is not a user
- An IP address is not a user
- An IP address is not a user
Trivial counter-examples:
- AOL.com's proxy, where every hit comes from a different address, even within the same session
- Dialup sessions (including most cable modems) where every session is a different IP
- Proxy servers for nearly all of the corporate access
Please don't make me have to repeat this stuff Yet Another Time.
-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker