----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Alocin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Undernet Coder Comitee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Coder-Com] suggestion of a WHOIS modification


> But a channel op could be an attacker too! Also...if we're gonna stop
> multiregistering we could possibly just say only 3-5 names per IP address.
>
While I am sure there are users that abuse multiregistering to X from a
single IP, there are also multiple users employing single IP's in the many
household and small business LAN's utilizing various forms of shared
connections.

I wonder if the loss of utility for these users might not outweigh the types
of abuse that can perpetrated with X.

William Van Wyck
pzl

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