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[SpamCop-Geeks] Re: How do open proxies work ?

Godwin Stewart gstewart.YOUR_KNICKERS at sgms-centre.com
Sat Jun 28 12:00:40 EDT 2003


Chris H. (nobody at spamcop.net) wrote to spamcop.geeks on Saturday 28 June
2003 00:52 in message <3EFCCA90.2080904 at spamcop.net>:

> For example, if Julian would put the web page that is used to post to
> the newsgroup on a secure server, wouldn't it post the real IP whether
> they are using a proxy or not and probably unbeknownst to the person
> using the proxy?

No.

The server's scripts will post the IP address of the machine connecting to
the server, i.e. the raped proxy.

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