So your assertion is that there's a large nexus of users with
identical editing patterns all clustered in the same geographical
area, on the same ISP, and they all happen to be getting each other's
IPs when their cable modems disconnect?
Because I think it's the ice weasels, personally.
-Snowspinner
On May 30, 2005, at 12:54 PM, Cranston Snord wrote:
I sent a response to this to the en-l mailing list
yesterday, but
it has not appeared. I am attempting to send it again.
If I do not see it this time, I will assume that one of you has
taken the step of removing me from the list for rightfully bringing
my complaints. This would be expected from the power-mad admins who
seem to be in control.
On to David Gerard's laughable assertions:
As for same pages of interest, no, we don't, as my edits will
attest: second, even if we did, Wikipedia has policy regarding
that, which I have already pointed out.
As for the IP, David Gerard insists that Roadrunner keeps users on
the same IP "for months": actually, my record time for keeping an
IP has been two weeks. Your IP only stays static if your cable
modem stays online, and thanks to large-scale construction in my
area, we are regularly hit with brownouts and blackouts, not to
mention cable service downtimes.
If a "Cranston Snerd" has edited Wikipedia, I'd like to see a
reference. Since I only edit with one account (named Enviroknot),
that is obviously a fake account set up by someone who is reading
this list and attempting to discredit me.
I also want Mel Etitis, his puppet Yuber, and whichever else of you
have been defacing my user page to stop it. I have already warned
Etitis and Yuber repeatedly.
-Enviroknot
From: David Gerard
<fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Notice to an Admin
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 22:19:27 +1000
David Gerard (fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au) [050529 22:16]:
ElKabong matches with KaintheScion firstly on
writing style and
pages of
interest, and secondly they both edited
[[Talk:George W. Bush]]
in the same
hour from the same IP. (I sent a list of the
edits and their
times to him
and he emailed back saying I must have made that
up.)
KaintheScion and
Enviroknot have the same pages of interest and
edit from the
same IP,
starting as the IP and then as Enviroknot the
moment I blocked
Kain as a
sockpuppet of ElKabong (who I unblocked - the
problem is abusing a
sockpuppet to pretend to be two people, not running a second
account per
se). Which is a DSL theoretically on DHCP, but I
know Roadrunner
often
keeps people on the same IP for ages. Certainly
this one.
Oh - and as well as Enviroknot's home IP matching Kain's,
"Cranston Snerd"
has edited (and signed "Cranston Snerd") from the same two IPs
favoured by
ElKabong. Thus completing the circle.
- d.
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