On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Anthere wrote:
Why should all non-sysop lose their anonymity just because *one* person is theatening ?
Revealing ip numbers to sysops doesn't really compromise anyone's anonymity. You can't generally get a person's name or address or anything similar from an ip number. At best, you can trace the ip to a particular internet provider, but that's about it.
And the provider (employer, university) can often trace the IP and time of connection to a particular customer (employee, student).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)