On Monday 10 February 2003 08:15 am, Andrew Smith wrote:

The MIT vandal might be discouraged from repeating his antics if someone complains to MIT about him. While we don't explicitly know who it was, it seems from what I've read that we know what IP addresses he was using at specific times so if MIT keep track of this then they will know who he is. Pointing out to them that if actions like these are repeated then wikipedia may be forced to block ranges of MITs IP addresses which would adversely affect their students as this is a useful educational resource etc might spur them into action.

While I wouldn't like to see anything serious happen to him a warning about his future conduct regarding university network facilities (which universities seem quite keen to give) might encourage him not to repeat his actions.

Just an idea..

Andrew

Hm. Has anybody on this list written such a letter before? If so, it would be useful to edit out the specifics in that letter and create a boilerplate template for Admins to use when contacting the abuse departments of ISPs.

Aside: Just so everybody knows we already have a boilerplate template "request for permission" that several people have used to ask outside authors to allow us to use their work under terms of the GFDL. See http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Boilerplate_request_for_permission

--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

WikiKarma: Added a bunch of events to [[February 5]]; updated all the year pages and many of the other articles linked from that page.