From: "Tony Sidaway"
<minorityreport(a)bluebottle.com>
Nothing good can come from enouraging editors to use socks and proxies to
evade blocks. Where this has happened in the past I've found that
escalating blocks on all offending sources tires the miscreant out.
I agree that nothing good comes of it (encouraging editors to use socks and
proxies to evade blocks), and that escalating blocks often tire the
miscreants out. Also, socks created for the purpose of evading 3RR can be
immediately blocked indefinitely. However, the more persistent ones seem to
have almost limitless energy; blocks combined with page protection is often
the only way of cooling them off.
Jay.