Losing Customers Due To AOL
I'm an AOL techie and we've had problems with people visiting Wikipedia. Since AOLers use both dialup and broadband, the ip addresses logged can rotate and it appears that the same person is visiting when it's someone else entirely.
If you use AOL via tcp/ip and you visit a site like Wikipedia or any site that interacts with an ip address you'll notice when trying to input data that you may find that you've been:
A.) Banned
B.) Wanted by the police
C.) Cast into the Negative Zone with General Zod
D.) The father of Laqueesha's baby.
Often the wrong person gets targeted and accused because of this. It happens with most ISPs and in varying situations. Mostly on highly political websites.
So if you've banned an ip and it was from a multi flow isp then your surfer/customer who is a good boy may find inaccessbility due to a bad boy you've banned.
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