16 Oct
2009
16 Oct
'09
6:50 a.m.
James Hess wrote:
In some rare cases, address masking might be used to assist a miscreant in commiting an abuse. They might use address masking to evade client-side /ignore filters. Torment a user while masked, then unmask.
This is true.
However, my observation, in seeing the networks where masking has been implemented on a certain scale: this is not that common. When masking is enabled by default, especially.
*nod*, we should make /silence always affect both masked and unmasked hosts, though. -Kobi.