Hello, Richard

Yep, you are right. What a surprise I received one day when my ISP changed
my DSL IP address! LOL. Normally, cable and DSL accounts are fixed - but
not forever.

As to dial-up accounts, you are also correct in that they change *every*
time you connect. Apparently some of the spammers love AOL as AOL isn't
particularly responsive to complaints and it is hard to trace back a
message - but who wants to pay that kind of money per month for America Off
Line?

As to me, I am probably headed back to DSL as they offered me two years of
all phone features (free unlimited long distance within the U.S., caller id,
call waiting, call forwarding, call blocking, 3 way calling and a big list
of other features) as well as 3000k DSL for $64.95 per month. Hmmmmmm ....
kinda like that 'fixed' IP for that price and speed


Best regards from Rochester, NY
Jim


"Richard" wrote in message
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On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 04:40:10 GMT American Eagle 352 wrote:

A few of you ladies are STILL trying to log onto my board, but
remember...the AKC filters are always on. "Filtered' AKC IP addys:
172.143.186
172.151.253
172.150.57
172.157.16

Unless it's a fixed, dedicated IP, that don't mean jack ****.
What if my cable company reassigns my IP?
Maybe I'm on dial up. In which case, the IP changes with each connection.
If you used 172.*.*.* then you'd block anyone from the entire IP range.
So bye bye aol users.
The IP block is meant to be used as a filter for domains, or robots.