Thanks -- I do appreciate your advice, and Fred's as well.
At 11:25 PM 5/15/2003 +0200, you wrote:
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:23:25PM -0600, Fred Bauder wrote:
Adding "my ass-crack will suffer the consequences of the bong-hole!" to an article on the French Revolution is well beyond the limits of any
doubt. The
only thing that might hold back a ban is if that is the address of AOL, MSN or some similar large isp.
Fred
If it's only one edit, don't ban. He just tried whether he can hit the "Save"-button. A ban only raises the vandals interest in messing around even more. I usually open a "User contributions" page and reload it after 5 to 10 minutes. If the user has made more edits, I revert them. I repeat this 2 or 3 times. If he's still around, I ban him. This is less work then looking up the IP and check whether it's a permanent or dynamic IP or a web proxy or so.
Regards,
jens
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