https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22741

--- Comment #6 from [email protected] 2010-05-30 15:33:45 UTC ---
The IP-address is for OTRS-work some vital piece of information to adequately
response to the request of a customer. Approximately 83% of all inquiries that
arrive at info-nl cannot be solved without the IP-address (e.g. to aid on
blocked [proxy- users, received IP-warnings, and so on…). I explicitly asked to
send the IP-address in all cases, because almost no inquiry can be acted upon
without it, lowering first time call solutions. 

Secondly, if users e-mail OTRS themselves via e-mail, we almost always receive
their IP-address in the header information (Gmail is one of the few
exceptions). Therefore, this extension currently – even with the said checkbox
- provides us with less information than a normal e-mail does; making it for
OTRS agents more desirable to have customers e-mail us directly instead of
using the contact form.

Thirdly, most users who use the mail-form are somewhat older, and not as
technically-gifted as our younger generation. Asking them if they want to
provide an “IP-address” is the same as asking them if they’d like a cup of tea
in Chinese: they have no idea what you’re talking about. This provides an
important (negative) service barrier, and I’m not willing to throw a barrier on
an extension service (mail-form) when people could also just e-mail.

Bringing it all together, the IP-address provides vital information that OTRS
agents cannot do without. The information we gain from this extension is less
than the information we gain from a normal e-mail and on top of that, asking
customers to send their IP-address provides a servicebarrier.

Please enable this extension, without asking customers to send their
IP-address. 

Thank you.

On a related note: We do not need the IP-address of logged-in users, only of
anonymous users.

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