On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 08:50:51 -0800, Nicholas Knight nknight@runawaynet.com wrote:
Contact her ISP. If you can't get them to drop her, call the upstream provider(s). If that doesn't work, block every IP range associated with the ISP and tell anyone affected to complain to the ISP. Wikipedia is getting big, it's time to start throwing some weight around when users are engaging in wildly abusive activities.
That's one way to do it. At some point, someone official may want to contact BT and see about getting her warned, although it's hard to believe that they'll drop her from the service for this. The tactics you describe are used by the anti-spam movement, but is her conduct as damaging as that of a spammer? Assuming that BT doesn't drop her, is Wikipedia prepared to embrace the "collateral damage" philosophy of the antispammers? It's controversial. I won't get into the pro/con arguments, but the debate is pretty heated. I'm not sure if this response fits in with Wikipedia's philosophy. Blocking all BT dialups would block many legitimate users.
Rhobite