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    Posted: 29 May 2003 at 9:35am

Hi everyone,

 

Just a quick question, how can I stop AOL members appearing more than once on web wiz forums?

Any help would be great

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote vdub Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 May 2003 at 10:34am

That would be hard.

You can try and block AOL users

AOL Uses a proxy and one AOL user can have a new IP-Address for everyhit. If you have 20 graphics on a page an AOL user could load it with 20 IP-Address.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote vdub Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 May 2003 at 10:37am

You souldnt block reading from guests. Thats how you make membors is be guests reading your forums first

 

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I have made a whos online mod but AOL users show up three times insted of one

This only happends with AOL

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I think maybe you can check for the user and not allow a matching name to appear more than once.
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How do i do that?

I am not a ASP expert i can adapt ASP to my needs and that is about it (I am still lerning)

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Before a user is added to the active list you should check that the user isn't already on the list. The current list, I believe relies on IP address.
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I am not sure this applies to this.. but on a forum I was a member of.. I suspected someone of having multipul ID's.. and ran a bunch of IP nubmers.. and found that like 25 out of 100 members all had the same IP number!  OMG.. I was shocked to find out that all these people were the same person! 

I called AOL, and found out that they use the same neighborhood IP or something like that, and every AOL user would have one of only a few IPs.   I signed up for the trial of AOL, and posted on my old forum, and sure enough, I had the same IP as the other 25 people did.

I am not sure how all that works, but also found out about "hidden proxys".. and it pretty much told me that if someone wanted in bad enough, they could do it.  I am no scientist.. and not even all that skilled with computer stuff.. but knew there was a way, and found it.  So if I could do it, there are loads of others who are doing it. 

I signed on to my old forum as three different people, and even on high alert, they never knew I was one and the same.. good for the user.. bad for the admin..

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