[Foundation-l] Re: check user policy/Tor

Sat Nov 5 20:00:25 UTC 2005

On 11/5/05, SJ <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/5/05, Amgine <amgine at saewyc.net> wrote:
>
> > beneficial to the Wikimedia projects. This is an opt-in situation for
> > you, and Wikimedia has no ability to separate you from the spammers and
> > vandals who likewise prevent us from knowing their IP.
>
> But we do.  Allowing anonymous users to create respected user accounts

Which is to say, we could easily develop the ability to separate
respected, truly-anonymous accounts (which have proven their
respectability over time), from spammers and vandals.   SJ