Actually AOL does this to prevent people from using the service as ftp mail and web servers. When aol went to unlimited service many people were using utilities to keep their connection alive and doing just this. They solved their problem by creating one for other people ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Thomas Deliduka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 09:52:55 -0400
>On 10/5/2001 2:22 AM this was written: > >> If not, people from AOL, are changing their IP in every request at Imail, >> and the Imail thinks this person is diferent from the person that filled the >> login form. > >Ah, this is because AOL does some type of round-robin proxy server stuff >with people who surf the Internet. I have seen people complain that 1 surfer >has had as many as 20 ip addresses from different proxy servers in one >session. This is the main reason why your web Srver stats are normally >scewed to showing many more aol sessions than any other ISP. I think it is >a way for AOL to appear to be the most dominant ISP on the planet. > >-- > >Thomas Deliduka >IT Manager > ------------------------- >New Eve Media >The Solution To Your Internet Angst >http://www.neweve.com/ > > > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >to be removed from this list. > >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at lohrtech.com Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
