Anyways, ACC only shows the IP to tooladmins and the handling user. After
the request is closed, only tooladmins can view the IP/email, and that too,
only for a month or so.

-ManishEarth


On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:40 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote:

> For acc to function, they need to know the IP address of the requester.
> Otherwise it would be flooded with sockpuppet and vandal requests and make
> it useless
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Mono mium <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> While this needs to be fixed, I think that this is a perfect time for
>> ACC to discuss creating a system where user's IP addresses and private
>> information is not revealed.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Manish Goregaokar <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Recently there have been a few changes to the toolserver, including
>> IPv6.
>> > Around the same time, ACC (enwp Account Creation Project) stopped
>> recording
>> > request IPs and replacing them with wikimedia IPs. Examples
>> > are 91.198.174.197 and 91.198.174.208. Could it be anything from the
>> > toolserver side? I don't think we have had any changes made to the ACC
>> code
>> > in the past few days (Though stwalkerster might have updated the stuff
>> from
>> > the sandbox to live--though we haven't had any changes in the IP section
>> > anyways).
>> > -ManishEarth
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