For acc to function, they need to know the IP address of the requester. Otherwise it would be flooded with sockpuppet and vandal requests and make it useless

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Mono mium <monomium@gmail.com> wrote:

While this needs to be fixed, I think that this is a perfect time for
ACC to discuss creating a system where user's IP addresses and private
information is not revealed.

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Manish Goregaokar <manishsmail@gmail.com> wrote:

> Recently there have been a few changes to the toolserver, including IPv6.
> Around the same time, ACC (enwp Account Creation Project) stopped recording
> request IPs and replacing them with wikimedia IPs. Examples
> are 91.198.174.197 and 91.198.174.208. Could it be anything from the
> toolserver side? I don't think we have had any changes made to the ACC code
> in the past few days (Though stwalkerster might have updated the stuff from
> the sandbox to live--though we haven't had any changes in the IP section
> anyways).
> -ManishEarth

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