2008/12/12 Anthony <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Florence Devouard <[email protected]>wrote: > >> If tomorrow, a really illegal-in-UK image is reported to the IWF, they >> will block it for real. And they will block again editing. > > > "They" didn't block editing. "You" did.
Technically, yes, but they made it impossible for us to do anything else. > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Dan Collins <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Do you have a suggestion? Not everyone uses XFF, certainly not ISPs >> with dynamic IPs, how would you suggest we block anonymous users? > > > If you want to block anonymous users, block anonymous users. If you want to > allow anonymous users to edit, then understand that you can't block anyone. > > If someone is anonymous, then you don't know who they are, so you don't know > whether or not they're blocked. That's nonsense. In the vast majority of cases there is a one-to-one correspondence between IP addresses and users (at least over the short term) and blocking by IP address works very well. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
