On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 00:32:00 GMT, DragonRider <NoSpam@NoJunkAtAll.com>
prounounced a fatwah thus:

>On 30 Jun 2003 19:13:51 +0800, Aaron <aarontaycheehsien@yahoo.com>
>wrote:
>
>>DragonRider <NoSpam@NoJunkAtAll.com> wrote in
>>news:fa10gvccrv5afe8or29ahm321fhtqvsh5u@4ax.co m:
>>
>>> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:15:17 +0300, Lance Delacroix
>>> <lance_delacroix@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:22:15 GMT, DragonRider <NoSpam@NoJunkAtAll.com>
>>>>prounounced a fatwah thus:
>>>>
>>>>>On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:15:00 +0300, Lance Delacroix
>>>>><lance_delacroix@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:05:50 GMT, DragonRider
>>>>>><NoSpam@NoJunkAtAll.com> prounounced a fatwah thus:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:14:00 +0300, Lance Delacroix
>>>>>>><lance_delacroix@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 08:05:40 GMT, DragonRider
>>>>>>>><NoSpam@NoJunkAtAll.com> prounounced a fatwah thus:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>On 29 Jun 2003 00:01:07 -0700, yosponge@yahoo.com (sponge) wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:42:19 -0400, DragonRider
>>>>>>>>>><NoSpam@NoJunkAtAll.com> wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>There is no perfect system. But if you route your connection through
>>several annoymous proxies all around the world, most ordinary people
>>would have no chance at all trying to trace you. Perhaps only the most
>>determined law enforcement agencies and hackers might be able to do it.
>
>What _are_ proxies. Sorry for the newbie question but I have seen
>this term before just don't know what it means or why people would
>use.

It's an intermediate server that you connect to instead of connecting
directly to another server "out there". A proxy is generally used by
an ISP to store web pages that have already been accessed locally
because it's faster to download pages from the proxy than to retrieve
them again from their original source: You download a page through a
proxy server and it gets stored on the proxy server; then the next
time you need that page, it's right there on the proxy waiting for
you.

Proxy servers have other uses, too. One is to mask a user's
identity,as you are doing. It's like laundering money. Another is to
allow the application of web-page filters that are stored on the proxy
server or to perform other operations on a downloaded file (a web
page); that's what Proxomitron does, and that's also one of the ways
that access to pages can be blocked.

Any time you need to know the meaning of a term, just type it into
Google.

>Tx.