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Old 08-27-2008, 06:52 PM  
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Originally Posted by FightThisPatent View Post
no, but ISP like cable, dsl, dialup (AOL), etc have dynamic IPs that can change after a few days or weeks

the IP of an AOL user can change during their session on a website, due to the way AOL proxies the internet access...

tracking by IP was the next idea after the realization that cookies could be deleted, but have long since known to be a bad idea as a method for tracking

Fight the webmastering like it was 1999!
The new patriot act will replace IP addresses with social security numbers and that
will solve the problem.
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