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<span style="font-size: 200%; vertical-align: middle;">[[Image:Information_icon.svg|25px]] '''Attention:'''</span> | <span style="font-size: 200%; vertical-align: middle;">[[Image:Information_icon.svg|25px]] '''Attention:'''</span> | ||
| − | This [[IP address]], '''{{PAGENAME}}''', is the address of a shared '''[[AOL]] (formerly America Online)''' web proxy | + | This [[IP address]], '''{{PAGENAME}}''', is the address of a shared '''[[AOL]] (formerly America Online)''' web proxy. This address is seen only by users for whom AOL's proxy systems do not implement the X-Forwarded-For service. |
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| + | As of 2007, all AOL proxy accesses that do not implement X-Forwarded-For are now blocked as open proxies, and no further edits should be seen coming from these addresses. | ||
If you are an unregistered user operating from this address, note that this is not the IP address of your machine. {{PAGENAME}} is the IP address of a [[proxy server]] that communicates between your browser and the [[Wikimedia]] servers. These and other proxies are shared among thousands of AOL users. If you are frustrated by irrelevant comments appearing here, you can avoid them by [[Special:Userlogin|creating an account for yourself]]. | If you are an unregistered user operating from this address, note that this is not the IP address of your machine. {{PAGENAME}} is the IP address of a [[proxy server]] that communicates between your browser and the [[Wikimedia]] servers. These and other proxies are shared among thousands of AOL users. If you are frustrated by irrelevant comments appearing here, you can avoid them by [[Special:Userlogin|creating an account for yourself]]. | ||
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'''<span class="plainlinks">{{IPvandal|{{PAGENAME}}}}</span>''' | '''<span class="plainlinks">{{IPvandal|{{PAGENAME}}}}</span>''' | ||
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Revision as of 13:20, 21 February 2007
If you have been blocked without cause, please read Wikipedia:AOL for advice.
Please note: This template should be transcluded ({{AOL}}) and not substituted (subst) because it is likely to change in the near future as the management of AOL proxies changes. Transclusion allows easy updating of all of these templates throughout the project without having to trackdown and edit hundreds of pages containing different versions of the same template.