[Imc-drupal-dev] [Fwd: Drupal 5.0 beta 1]

[ekes]

Cameron Gregg wrote:
> for anonymizing IPs I've used the method:
> 
> $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] = time();
> 
> in bootstrap.inc, which means a random number gets inserted.
> 
> I've found inserting 127.0.0.1 on every entry causes problems for the
>  Poll module. that is, anonymous users can't vote.

I am opting these days to anonymize before even that point, using the
riseup apache module http://dev.riseup.net/patches/apache/ this replaces
127.0.0.1 even in the error logs.

I've never had anyone ask to use the poll module yet :-) patch that if
we need to in the future.

As for the spam.module I have so far found it to work fine even without
patching. It only uses the IP to ban posting from previous spammers,
which can be switched off in admin. It would be useful for an attack
(maybe worth adding a plug in to create a pause on posting after
multiple spam posts... or some sort of 'greylisting' with a pause and a
second page :)

ekes