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in thread Preventing multiple votes by same user effeciently

Also, remember that there is nothing to say that AOL members will even have the same IP during a browser session. IP rotation with AOL members is an issue to remember.
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Re: Re: Re: Preventing multiple votes by same user effeciently
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 26, 2002 at 16:03 UTC

    I'm surprised by this. I've never used AOL but I know my sister has an account and regularly uses both AIM and more significantly MSN Messenger. If her IP is constantly changing, I'm wondering how these comms protocols manage?

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      It wouldn't be that her computer's IP is constantly changing, but that the proxy AOL sets for http requests is actually a host of machines, each with it's own IP. So a connected user will have the same IP when doing FTP, AIM, or anything that doesn't go through the proxy.

      -- Dan

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        That makes sense, Thanks.

        Nah! Your thinking of Simon Templar, originally played by Roger Moore and later by Ian Ogilvy
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