[Foundation-l] and what if...

[Thomas Dalton]

2008/12/12 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> If tomorrow, a really illegal-in-UK image is reported to the IWF, they
>> will block it for real. And they will block again editing.
>
>
> "They" didn't block editing.  "You" did.

Technically, yes, but they made it impossible for us to do anything else.

> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Dan Collins <en.wp.st47 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Do you have a suggestion? Not everyone uses XFF, certainly not ISPs
>> with dynamic IPs, how would you suggest we block anonymous users?
>
>
> If you want to block anonymous users, block anonymous users.  If you want to
> allow anonymous users to edit, then understand that you can't block anyone.
>
> If someone is anonymous, then you don't know who they are, so you don't know
> whether or not they're blocked.

That's nonsense. In the vast majority of cases there is a one-to-one
correspondence between IP addresses and users (at least over the short
term) and blocking by IP address works very well.