Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 13:12:34 02/05/04
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On February 05, 2004 at 15:56:19, Chessfun wrote: >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. 127.0.0.1 is just the address of the local computer. Just in case some script kiddies wanna attack my computer, I give them this number and they attack themselves. :) Sargon
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