Many large corporations sit behind a firewall (typically using something
like IP masquerading or NAT), which makes it look like everybody in the
company is coming from a single IP address.

Dave Hylands

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nevin Pratt [mailto:nevin at smalltalkpro.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 12:14 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: Vote now! (was Re: straw-man 3.2 default preferences)
> 
> 
> Göran Hultgren wrote:
> 
> >
> >Using cookies or ip-tracking (which doesn't work) feels so bad too...
> >
> 
> Hmm, why doesn't ip-tracking work?
> 
> Nothing is fool-proof, and thus anything can be hacked and 
> gone around. 
>  My feel has been that if somebody is sophisticated enough to spoof 
> ip's, then they're probably sophisticated enough to find a way around 
> anything else, too, so why bother.
> 
> In other words, I'm inclined to just ip-track.  Is that bad?  How?
> 
> Nevin