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, brewhaha%40edmc.net brewhaha@edmc.net wrote:
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@googlemail.com wrote in message news:7c865bab0901152055r26e14a02r8bbb19127b7184d9@mail.gmail.com...
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:47 AM, brewhaha%40edmc.net brewhaha@edmc.netwrote:
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.
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