Recently I have had a deluge of junkmail, and I have a pretty good idea who it is. One of emails (below), from LeadFactory.com, included the IP address of the person who subscribed me.
I had a hunch, considering, one, a lot of it is right-wing U.S. and Israeli email (of which related articles I've been editing lately) and, two, it's the first junkmail I've ever received at this address. So I plugged the address into Wikipedia and whatta ya know, a probable sock puppet who has been especially abusive to me recently: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special: Contributions&target=155.84.57.253
You might also like to check out some of the sock puppet's responses to requests to stop vandalism and 3RR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:155.84.57.253
I also did a geographic trace on the IP and they're from Houston Texas.
Can this IP address be permanently banned or something? Is there anyone who can check the address against other usernames?
Christiaan
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