Yes... stating on a page "VERIZON IS BANNED!" for example would definitely
make them scared and start taking actions against jerks.
Developers, are you listening? Jeff's got it right!
On 8/4/06, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey(a)wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
James Hare wrote:
Jeff Merkey -- defender of American Indians,
defeater of Asian ISPs.
Wikipedia could technically set up such an extreme system, but it would
cause too many people to be blocked at once, and thus less people can
edit
(Jimmy-Jimmy seems to like allowing everyone to
edit). Also, such high
levels of blocking could give us a bad name.
But I'd implement it.
Well, the only way to get an ISPs attention is to it them in their
pocketbooks. If their users cannot use
the site and are "BANNED" on a public list -- you can very well bet they
will jump to start swatting
these gadfly vandals and pretty quick.
Jeff
On 8/4/06, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey(a)wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
>James Hare wrote:
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>>Oooh! War of attrition!
>>
>>James approves.
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>I had to do the same thing to chinanet and several other asian ISPs as
>well -- they remain blocked -- permanently.
>
>Jeff
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>>On 8/4/06, Jeffrey V. Merkey <jmerkey(a)wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
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>>>geni wrote:
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>>>>On 8/4/06, Nathan Carter <cartmanau(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>>Is there already a section within the foundation which can deal with
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>this?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>If not is some form of "abuse reporting" procedure needed?
>>>>>I think the best way to do it is for the foundation itself to do the
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>dirty
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>>>>>work so to speak, which should avoid any privacy issues.
>>>>>Cheers,
>>>>>Nathan Carter (Cartman02au)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>While that may be an option in the short term in the long run this is
>>>>likely to become more common and thus it is probably best that there
>>>>to be a way to deal with this below foundation level.
>>>>
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>>>Most of the ISP's ignore these reports, including DCMA takedown
notices
>>>(they just throw them in the trash).
One very effective
>>>method that both works and gets their attention I have used at
>>>WikiGadugi dissuades 100% of vandals, gets the ISP's attention, and
>>>gets the problem fixed immediately. It is as follows:
>>>
>>>1. When I first setup WikiGadugi, I had the distinct pleasure of being
>>>visited by WillyonWheels from the UK.
>>>2. I tried the whole page move vandal, blocking, blah blah blah, it
only
>>>made him more persistent.
>>>3. I wrote a shim program into IP tables as a MediaWiki addon that
does
>>>WHOIS lookup everytime
>>>the IP address gets used to write a page and saves not only the IP
>>>address for the write, but the ISP range as well.
>>>4. The shim checks a file not visible where I record IP addresses for
>>>vandal addresses and autoblocks the entire ISP IP range AT THE
FIREWALL
>>>blocking both reading and writing,
shutting down all access for that
>>>
>>>
>ISP.
>
>
>>>I had someone from the UK email me (my email servers are on a separate
>>>network) from this ISP range. It was
>>>blueyonder.uk and apparently, other universities were studying the
>>>Cherokee translation and wondered why the site was down. It was not
long
>>>before the ISP notified me a certain
account was "suspended".
>>>
>>>I would suggest creating a banned ISP listing with ranges based on
>>>persistent vandals, and when they suspend the accounts, you will
unblock
>>>them
>>>at the firewall. It fixed my vandalism problems. I have 0% vandalism
at
>the WikiGadugi site and I stuck it to
WillyOnWheels.
>
>Jeff
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