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To: Todd Daniels who wrote (4804)	9/17/1997 10:10:00 PM
From: Art Stone	of 13594

My sense is that the AOL proxy can be bypassed by using an external browser (eg. Netscape or separate IE install) and leaving the proxy settings off (i.e.not the www.proxy.aol.com or www.ie3.proxy.aol.com). This sometimes results in intermitent "no DNS" returns, tho to certain sites. Yes. My original post carefully stated "using the AOL client software with the default settings". Anyone who understands enough to know what a proxy server is a "geek", and not of interest to AOL anyhow :) Netscape will run fine, although perhaps slowly, as it is just another IP client using AOL's dynamic IP addresses. However, AOL has tightly integrated the AOL browser into the software. So far as I've heard, it is not possible to click on a hyperlink on AOL (aol://) and have it be launched by the Netscape browser, so your choices are to either switch back and forth, or to ignore the AOL "content".

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