The problem is not so much that he edits from a range as much as he
abuses proxies.
If you don't know, proxies are a way to appear as if you are posting
from a different address. So in reality a determined person like grawp
can continue to use unblocked proxies until we block them all. (
Blocking *all* proxies is nigh on impossible because computers get
comprimised daily... So new "open proxies" are created daily.) In
theory as long as grawp has the motivation, he can keep this game up
indefinitely, until he is stopped by someone offline (police, parents)
or until we have working programs that reliably detect his behavior
and undoes it without human assistance.
If it were just the one range we would have blocked it long ago, but it is not.
On 1/18/09,
I hav dynamic IP, myself, and it seems that typically,
I get the same IP I
had last time if it is available, and it is always within the same 64k
block. What is more impractical is the manpower demanded by what we are
doing now, which is blocking one IP# at a time.
"Al Tally" <majorly.wiki(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:7c865bab0901152055r26e14a02r8bbb19127b7184d9@mail.gmail.com...
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:47 AM,
brewhaha%40edmc.net
<brewhaha(a)edmc.net>wrote;wrote:
Do we not yet hav a policy regarding open proxies
(relays)? I would think
that
anonymizer.com and anything like it is blocked indefinitely. hotmail
and gmail blocked
anonymizer.com. Why should we not? As a jeneral rule,
open
relays for e-mail are listed and blocked, so as a jeneral rule, mail
relays
only serve congestion physics and paying users.
Yes, we do have a rule. We also have a rule against vandalism. Hanson does
not care for rules.
Anonymizer.com is just one proxy. There are thousands
of
proxies. He also edits through a normal ISP. We can't range block that; it
would be impractical.
--
Alex
(User:Majorly)
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