On 2003.07.19, Gustaf Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > using the IP address as a means to track people is certainly a bad > idea. a common usage in OpenACS is for documentation purposes. > E.g. when an entry is created in the content repository it is logged, who > (ad_conn user_id) created it at which time and from which ip address. > Having the ip address wrong is not a mission critical issue, so maybe many > people simple don't care to much about this issue....
Why even record their IP address if you have their user ID? Seems like that's a 1999-ism that needs to be removed. (You know, back when people still thought it was cool to say "ha, ha, I know what your IP address is!") -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70) -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
