On 12/12/07, Florence Devouard <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I am looking for some arguments to keep it private.
Others than "well,
this is the default behavior".
If you have a fixed IP address that can be relatively easily linked to
your personal identity or your employer, I could see why you wouldn't
want it to be publicly known that you've been pushing the article
about gay midget pornography to featured article status. Or the one
about Scientology.
Yes, there are anonymizer tools, but
* most of them are quite slow
* they are not always built to be used on a per-page basis
* they may cost money, or contain spyware, etc.
Basically - it would mean that quite a few users would have to go
through substantial pain in order to have any degree of privacy at
all.
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Toward Peace, Love & Progress:
Erik
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