Author: Chessfun
Date: 12:56:19 02/05/04
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On February 05, 2004 at 15:02:45, Daniel Clausen wrote: >On February 05, 2004 at 13:46:04, Chessfun wrote: > >>Personally I always vote and I think the majority will vote for persons who they >>know or who post with reasonable frequency. This IMO makes the election of a >>bogus candidate less likely, as would adding a minimum posting requirement. I >>still think though adding the posters IP to the posts is a good idea if even to >>eliminate bogus posters who have no idea how to use other methods. > >I'm not a fan of making the IP visible to the public. Since I have a static IP >address, it would be easy for idiots to attack my machine. (not that they'd be >successful ;) A slighly improved method would be to show only the first part of >the IP. (like 42.84.x.x) Even better IMHO would be to log the IP but only make >it accessible to a few persons. (like Steve from ICD and maybe the moderators) > >Sargon (posted from 127.0.0.1) AFAIK mine is also static. One thing Dr Hyatt wrote which was if you are behind a firewall it's hidden. I know that if I post at say the Rebel Board as was, my IP was always displayed correctly. Even though I use "Zone Alarm" as I'm sure many others do. Also what is IP 127.0.0.1, I assume it's a blank IP but would CCC give you an ID using such an IP?. Naturally they could avoid that and only issue ID's to valid IP's. I'm probably getting over my head anyway as I know little about how you could fake an IP. Sarah.
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