Summon a checkuser with a suspected sockpuppet template on their front page. Those are *mainly* the ones who see IP#s and whois search links on those IP#s.
"Abigail Brady" morwen@evilmagic.org wrote in message news:68e55ace0905210832g75a27ee5ha7a36217a2045d9b@mail.gmail.com...
The headers indicate it was sent through the 'email this user feature': my mailhost received it directly from wikimedia.org.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=Wp_freedom_fi...
indicates the account was created May 10, although it doesn't seem to have done anything after creation.
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Jay Litwyn <brewhaha@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
wrote:
Abigail Brady carbon-copied an e-mail purportedly from user:Wp_freedom_fighter (if you follow the trailing indications of source, which were probably written manually) and that user does not seem to egzist, nor do they seem to hav ever egzisted. All I get on google is games and Sri Lankan war heroes. <a href=" http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=6db52210dc1d573db450917c2f128df3&showtopic=24308&pid=172868&st=0&#entry172868 "> Unless you count this -CC- to someone else</a>. In other words, this user has nothing to lose but a gmail account, or so they think. googlemail tracks ISPs. An ISP might even be in the received headers. It is best that the complaint come from her and in her own words. _______ <a href="http://ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/finance/Manual_Spam_Control.htm<http://ecn.ab.ca/%7Ebrewhaha/finance/Manual_Spam_Control.htm> ">Some clues about how you figure such things out are here.</a> A whois search on X-Originating-IP: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX might let her bypass googlemail, which is understandably bottle-necked.
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