On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Per the commit message, this restores it to previous
behavior, which
marked certain IP-like patterns that aren't valid IPs as "IPs" for
purposes of, for instance, forbidding them as usernames.
To stop people from being confused about whether 65.91.3.257 is an
anonymous user, I guess?