Posted on 02-Jan-2002 22:39 GMT by Christian Kemp | 174 comments View flat View list |
Today, I tracked over one hundred attempts of abuse on ANN. I've been working on the filters and editing mechanisms for over four hours. Maintaining ANN is turning into real work, and all I see are tasks that I despise. This one individual, and the general attitude on ANN lately, is alienating visitors and making this site a horrible place to be. Most of what I see is insults and blind advocacy... I'm tired... And I can just see the negative comments again, in reply to me posting this...
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MOTD 02/01/2002 : Comment 115 of 174 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Mike Veroukis on 03-Jan-2002 15:06 GMT | In reply to Comment 87 (Samface): >Perhaps one way would be by sending a unique cookie to the IP of the poster, >if his/her IP is spoofed they won't recieve the cookie and their browser won't >send the appropriate confirmation. I don't know, just an idea...
Nice idea, but I think cookies are set within the HTTP transaction. You don't send cookies to IP addresses. I could be wrong here, but I don't think it works that way.
I was thinking that there MUST be a way to verify a user's IP address. I know there's some form of http authentication, but that usually requires someone to login to a site. There is also the "secure" conntection, or shttp. This type of connection, although a bit slower to load due to encryption, should also provide for some form of IP registering. Could you use shttp for posting an article?
I believe there's a way, it's just I don't know how. The community has to come together to protect itself. We've got the brains, so I'm not too worried.
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