On 9/28/05, Roy M. Silvernail
I have valid although perhaps unpopular contributions to make, and not only is my freedom to express myself limited, the quality of the material on Wikipedia suffers due to the absence of my perspective.
Wow. Nice ego there.
The status quo is not acceptable and we should work to find a solution.
Leaving aside the qualitative discussion, let's remember that the freedom to express onesself does not imply the obligation for any other party to listen.
Nor the obligation for any other party to provide you with a soapbox. Operate your own wiki if you don't like their decisions.
Tor is transport layer. Authentication for a specific service (such as Wikipedia) is the responsibility of that service and belongs in the session layer.
What Roy said. This Wikiwhiner might want to read up on the OSI model. Conveniently, there's a Wikipedia article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model
An authenticated network and an anonymizing network are mutually exclusive.
True enough, but to make it clear, an anonymizing network is not exclusive with an authenticated application. (Not necessarily so, anyway. I haven't checked into TOR, but there's no good reason an HTML hidden field couldn't provide session continuity for an anonymous web surfer.) -- There are no bad teachers, only defective children.