On Saturday 19 July 2003 06:32, you wrote:
> > i wonder that this discussion was not coming up earlier...
>
> Probably because using IP address in most cases is a bad idea and there
> are probably better ways of tracking people (such as unique persistent
> cookies).

 using the IP address as a means to track people is certainly a bad
 idea. a common usage in OpenACS is for documentation purposes.
 E.g. when an entry is created in the content repository it is logged, who
 (ad_conn user_id) created it at which time and from which ip address.
 Having the ip address wrong is not a mission critical issue, so maybe many
 people simple don't care to much about this issue....

 greetings -gustaf

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WU-Wien, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien


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