Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 10/19/05, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
Incerdenterly do you remeber Mr treason? We had to block everyone who edited from AOL.
This seems a little unlikely.
AOL is currently 22% of the US market (the "one-third" I was told [by them ... ahem] a year ago seems to match their noted decline, since they're not doing nearly as well selling broadband in the US as they are in the UK), so that would be a *lot* of people to block in a go.
But, if it was that or switch the wiki to read-only, AOL would be blocked. Same for any other large ISP. With a note from the devs to the Foundation and a very very nice message to the abuse department of the ISP in question asking for their help.
That AOL essentially operates an internal anonymising proxy network only makes them a harder case to make blocks specific for. At least with most ISPs you can narrow it down to a city's proxy if they aren't showing you users' real IPs. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dealing_with_AOL_vandals
- d.