[WikiEN-l] blocking vandals

[Richard Grevers]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 13:03:53 -0700 (PDT), Daniel Ehrenberg 
<littledanehren at yahoo.com> gave utterance to the following:

>
> Maybe, when blocking someone, we should put a cookie on their computer 
> that doesn't let them edit under any username or IP adress. I know this 
> could be a breach of privacy, so maybe it could expire in a week. It 
> would be easy to get around, just a deterent. (just as it is easy to get 
> around blocking usernames)
>
So easy that I doubt it would be the least bit effective:
Cookies are - optional in the first place
- easy to find and delete
- unique to each browser (I have 8 to choose from!)
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