[Foundation-l] New draft of privacy policy

Sun Jun 15 14:15:15 UTC 2008

2008/6/15 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> Someone should answer Gregory's question first: "Why do we grant the
> equivalent of checkuser rights over a majority of our contributors to
> every person on the planet?"
>
> "Historical accident" was the only thing I could come up with.

It's hard not to. If we were to say assign a random number to every IP
then by now someone would have published a partial list of number to
IP relationships. If the number assigns keep changing well we know the
problems that we had with AOL back in the day.

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geni