On 23/10/06, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Per-IP limits are prone to false positives due to shared IPs, and can be evaded to some degree by technically capable users, but the per-user limit is quite secure.
Also, consider the situation when you are not sure about your registered username on Wikipedia -- you might try to fill in a few usernames and click "mail me a new password" on each, which is quite a valid use case. (Another solution to the problem would be a requirement to fill in your e-mail address to use this functionality.)
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]