On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:07:56 +0200, startx startx@plentyfact.org wrote:
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:40:10 -0800 Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca wrote:
Removing anonymity of spammers is a good thing? Did I miss something?
spammers can also register. but leave it to people to decide if they want to keep anonymity could be a nice feature. or at least only displaying the adresses to the wikiadmin.
using the ip adresses displayed in "recent changes" for attacs is as bad as spamming whitout registering.
The last "person' to spam my wiki did register. It's actually more annoying when they do register, since I needed to dig through my apache log files to track down an ip address to block. I figure that it's useless to block a spammer by name since they'll just re-register under a different one. It would actually be nice if mediawiki would keep the ip address(es) used by 'registered' users as well. Perhaps only visible to sysops.
I'd be very surprised if an internet attacker would use a recent changes list to look for victims. In any case, taking the ability to view ip addresses away from sysops would be a bad thing, and I'd prefer it if ip addresses of registered users were also tracked so that sysops could see them.