Sean,<br><br>I suggest you re-add the IP addresses. Many people on IRC don&#39;t mask their IP anyway, so if they&#39;re the typical IRC user (which I guess your bot is intended for) they won&#39;t mind. If it prevents abuse, it&#39;s worthwhile. (Alternatively, you keep a user database and display it to ops on request)
<br><br>--Draicone<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sean Whitton</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:sean@silentflame.com">sean@silentflame.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey all,<br><br>I&#39;m sure some of you noticed that last night (GMT) there was a<br>somewhat huge abuse of my pastebot, which is located at<br><a href="http://tools.wikimedia.de/~swhitton/pastebin">http://tools.wikimedia.de/~swhitton/pastebin
</a>. Thanks to the ops who<br>dealt with it, and sorry for the trouble.<br><br>Originally the bot displayed the IP address of posters so that it<br>could be dealt with and I think it has some kind of banning interface<br>
via PM. However, I was asked to remove this for privacy concerns and I<br>agree that this is an issue, so I commented out the code (I don&#39;t<br>speak perl, which it is written in). What do people think about<br>re-adding IP addresses, with a warning on the pastebin form page?
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