[WikiEN-l] sysop vs sysop

[Brion Vibber]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Christopher Mahan wrote:
> Worst case scenario:
>
> two sysops go on an edit war. against each other. They lock the page,
> to no avail because the other can still edit it. Then one bans the
> other other's IP. The other retaliates by blocking the account.

This is only possible in the case of a very few people who have login
access to the server for development and maintenance. In general, sysops
cannot identify the IP address of a logged-in user, nor block a user
account.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)