I'm not sure what the right venue is, so I'm asking here...
What is the technical or policy reason that IP blocks don't let editors with named accounts log in from that IP or IP range anyways?
If someone starts creating socks, those would seem to be easily identifyable if they're consistently from the same IP or IP range, unless you're talking about AOL.
With AOL, it would get past a lot of ongoing frustration and admin efforts (it seems) if users with accounts could log in and edit even if the IP range or address was blocked for anon use due to vandalism etc.
I apologize in advance if this is an old argument, but I haven't found any explanation and would like to be informed on why it's done this way now, and whether alternatives have been considered in the past.
Thanks.
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550
On 7/1/06, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure what the right venue is, so I'm asking here...
What is the technical or policy reason that IP blocks don't let editors with named accounts log in from that IP or IP range anyways?
If someone starts creating socks, those would seem to be easily identifyable if they're consistently from the same IP or IP range, unless you're talking about AOL.
With AOL, it would get past a lot of ongoing frustration and admin efforts (it seems) if users with accounts could log in and edit even if the IP range or address was blocked for anon use due to vandalism etc.
I apologize in advance if this is an old argument, but I haven't found any explanation and would like to be informed on why it's done this way now, and whether alternatives have been considered in the past.
Thanks.
-- -george william herbert gherbert@retro.com / george.herbert@gmail.com _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l