Hello Abigail,
Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 3:53:28 PM, you wrote:
My first
proposal: after I am logged on, I should have the option to
disallow my IP address from anonymous posting. So when I am on
wikipedia once again, anonymous, the system won't give me the
possibility to save changes without logging in (or, may be, pushing
explicit button "I want to edit without logging in, with ip-address
logged").
This would be a very dangerous facility, if provided. It would
mean
that anyone using a proxy server could block everyone else using the
proxy server, inadvertently.
Why? I don't propose letting to log in only for
THAT only user. Any
user will be able to log in - or even to post anonymously - it just
won't be so implicit.
If we did something like this it would need doing with
cookies, I suppose.
I think, usual "remember my password across session" option is already
working through cookies. So if cookies are set properly, I will be
already logged on. And if I'm not logged on, cookies are wrong - so I
think your proposition has little sense...
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