[Freeciv-Dev] Re: The guy from .algonet.se

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 11:10:51AM -0600, John Goerzen was heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> >   (I think the comments on email addresses are right, though; it's not 
> > really
> >    a helpful identifier of people.  Some sort of 'karma' system, as you
> >    observed, should be enough..)
> 
> But you still have to have a unique identifier per person.  The karma
> system only works if you have that.

  No, you have to have a unique identifier of *accounts*.  The nice thing about
karma-type systems is that there's a builtin penalty (in theory) for people who
try to escape their bad karma by creating accounts (they start over from
scratch)

  Daniel