It's easy to get around all of the banning tecniques, but this would be hard for someone who is just a passerby vandal, as opposed to an advanced cracker (who wouldn't even bother with Wikipedia, for it is too easy). Plus, what if they didn't know it was a cookie blocking them? Another thing, by all means, I don't want to require the enabling of cookies for use of wikipedia. That would be too much of an invasion of privacy, even if it *could* prevent vandals with that tecnique.

 Richard Grevers <lists@dramatic.co.nz> wrote:

So easy that I doubt it would be the least bit effective:
Cookies are - optional in the first place
- easy to find and delete
- unique to each browser (I have 8 to choose from!)
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