Abe Sokolov wrote:
To evade a block, all a vandal has to do is log off and log back on with a new account. However, going through all the steps required by email confirmation (consisting of signing up for a new email account, signing up to Wikipedia, checking the new email account for confirmation, and then logging on to Wikipedia) will take more time than the time required for admins to ban the sockpuppet.
Perhaps you didn't get the point from my previous email. I can create a new email address in the time it takes me to type it out. I can also easily whip up a script that would let me automatically catch confirmation emails and respond appropriately without me ever seeing them. The entire process of creating an account on Wikipedia can be automated so that a new user could be created in a few seconds, email confirmation or not.
To summarize:
CONFIRMATION
DOES
NOT
HELP.
(If your next suggestion is "CAPTCHA", I have a two-word response: "blind people".)
Are we done now?