On 11/13/05, BJörn Lindqvist bjourne@gmail.com wrote:
And the stupidest thing of all is that there is absolutely no technical need to expose peoples IP addressess at all.
I don't believe there are any plans to. This is all to deal with users who abuse sockpuppets. Hence it has only been granted to ArbCom users, and those who can use it at that. The only time I can imagine when a user might have their IP address identified would be if they used their IP address without signing in to make an edit. This appears to me to be consenting to have their IP address exposed.
However, I agree that to allow this tool to all admins (or some other wide-ranging group that has nothing to do with dispute resolution) is foolish and should be avoided.
Sam