Christiaan Briggs (christiaan(a)last-straw.net) [050109 04:08]:
On 8 Jan 2005, at 4:59 pm, Robert Brookes wrote:
>One assumes that Arwel Parry was acting in good
faith when he blocked
>IP 198.54.202.242. Sadly that is the IP of a server and thus will
>affect a large number of people if they happen to be members of
>Wikipedia. Surely there is a more technically precise manner in which
>to block vandals without blocking members who actually login to edit
>Wikipedia?
Is it possible to code MediaWiki so you could block IP
addresses with
exception to designated users.
Now unblocked. It should also be possible theoretically for Mediawiki to do
a DNS and whois lookup first, so you can tell if it's likely to be a
dialup, a DSL or the proxy for a lot of people.
- d.