On 4/10/06, Philip Welch wikipedia@philwelch.net wrote:
Why can't we just use Checkuser (if this is coming from a registered user) to discover the ISP or employer of a harassing/abusive user (wherever they're accessing WP from) and inform them of this sort of abuse. Or, perhaps, get their identity so the harassed editor has legal (or, dare I say, extra-legal) recourse.
Legal tends to be the expenisive and impracticle. Extra-legal tends to be a bad idea. In any case the case which has triggered this has already gone offline. that is rather the problem. Welcome to the next stage of the internet when activities online start to have increaseing meatspace effects -- geni