On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote: [snip]
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com
wrote:
The editing problems are purely from the technical incompetence in the manner in which the UK censorship is being performed, and not from the censorship itself.
C'mon, what about the technical incompetence in the manner in which the Mediawiki software identifies unique individuals?
IP addresses aren't people.
Come now: We have accounts.
Just barely.
We use 'having a unique IP' as a type of "proof of work".
I don't remember seeing the RFC for that.
We'll gladly except XFF from their proxies if they'd bother sending it.
Actually, there's no RFC for that either. While a common practice, you shouldn't rely on it.
Can you suggest anything better that we can do to prevent people from minting as many accounts as they like and causing trouble.
You could require an email address...