Tim Starling schreef:
As for AOL itself: sad to say, but we might need to put up some entry barriers. Bug 550 is an extreme example of this: a feature which would let sysops restrict access to trusted users only. Email confirmation with an aol.com address required would be better.
-- Tim Starling
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No, it wouldn't be better. Bug 550 is not restricted to AOL. It's much more wide spread. It's about schools, proxies, filtering services, company's
I think the best solution is to give sysops the option to mark users as trusted. Those users then should be able to "hop" over IP blocks. That way good contributers can bypass ip blocks but will still be blockable (by user name).
But WHY hasn't this been picked up earlier, it has been an annoyance for years now? Are the devs really this ignorant? I guess so, because there's definitely community support.
Gerben van der Stouwe G.vanderstouwe@gmail.com http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Gerbennn