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I used to work for AOL. They do know what they are saying; even when you use the
winsock connection to the network you are using there DHCP server's IP address
assigned to your machine and it does route threw a proxie. Although I personally
hate AOL as a provider after working for them I do see it has some nice features
that new users and intermeditate users can enjoy...

Adam Fritzler wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Brian Watson wrote:
>
> >
> > TGaArdvark@aol.com (TGaArdvark@aol.com) wrote:
> >
> > >Precisely why I use Netscape (that and I hate MSIE).
> >
> > If you're connecting via AOL and using Netscape, you're still going
> > through their server and proxy...
>
> Uhmmmm...No.  When you connect to AOL, you get an IP address assigned to
> you individually.  The proxy only gets used when you use AOL's obsolete
> integrated browser.
>
> You can connect to AOL with the AOL client, start one of the many ftp
> servers for windows, and ftp into your AOL client.  You can also ping it
> and do all that wonderful stuff.
>
> If you connect to AOL and use Netscape, you are NOT using the proxy.  You
> are not censored from anything.  You get logged as being from your dynamic
> IP.  It's no different than dialing into your average PPP-based ISP and
> doing whatever.  You get your own IP, but it's dynamic.
>
> af
>
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