Originally Posted by katharos

because giving away your ip adress is like giving away adress of your house. you never know who can see your ip, you can be never safe enough to prevent hackers from installing anything to your computer and stealing your datas through opened ports. giving away ip adress is bad, and if you are doing it on your forum, you are danger for people security ... i am running forums from 98, and i know what i will never do ... give away ip adress of any of my users!