Quote Originally Posted by peas_and_corn View Post
The biggest problem with banning IPs is the fact there are finite numbers of IPs around. There is a gorwing problem in that the internet has no more IPs and more are being increasingly shared. There was an article I read recently when a Wiki moderator blocked an entire country from editing Wikipedia because that country had only one IP to serve all internet users there.




Quality spyware/malware programmes take care of stuff like that, though.




I have wireless, and if I reset my router I can get one of about three different IPs- I'm guessing they are shared among all the computers that use my ISP in the area.
Java cookies won't be cleared by a spyware or mal ware program, because too many of them are required to run web sites properly, and the companies that deal with them only search out and destroy ones that are prevalent in the thousands, and meet a specific parameter.
a SRP Java cookie would not be listed on the list of removable items because it wouldn't be recognised as malicious. Frankly the cookie need only identify the user, the redirect could be a command from a list on the SRP site. They already use cookies to recognise us, and let us know when we have PM's.

The difference would not be the practice of using cookies, but simply creating a directory of banned users, and using a cookie hidden on their machine to uphold it. You take away their option of signing out because they can't get to the site to sign out. It would be an unnoticable change to all of the rest of us, because we wouldn't be on the list of individuals who get redirected.

And by using a java cookie, the clear history and clear cookies command would not remove the java cookie. Those are much harder to remove.

Frankly we could all be switched over to java cookies, and we would never know the difference, they function in the same manner. but if I decide to sign in as JoeSpammer, and cause trouble. the JoeSpammer java cookie would be on my computer. next time I tried to go to SRP, the SRP web site would see JoeSpammer, and would send me on my merry way to some other site. Essentially I would type SRP.com, and end up at Barney.com... SRP wouldn't even appear to me, it would be as if it didn't exist. You could even make it so that an error message popped up and said that site didn't exist... "Sorry you have reached the end of the internet, please go back and try again."

Or better yet... SEND THEM HERE