in reply to Re: Re: Preventing multiple votes by same user effeciently
in thread Preventing multiple votes by same user effeciently

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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Re: Re: Re: Re: Preventing multiple votes by same user effeciently
by zigdon (Deacon) on Oct 28, 2002 at 13:51 UTC

    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.

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