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.