Alternatively, we are now sufficiently established and have enough gravitas that we could //persuade// the ISP in question that it would be in their best interests to block malefactors. I leave it to your collective imaginations what our response could be, but we could certainly do a full-featured article on uncooperative and problematic ISPs for example.... Or we could block them entirely.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Bauder" fredbaud@ctelco.net To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 10:45 AM Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] multi-headed VANDALS
At 09:14 PM 7/27/02 -0700, you wrote:
I just blocked 3 IPs of a vandal similar to if not the same as the
previous
one. Both events involved more than one IP being used by a single
individual.
Please see http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist
One of the messages this person left was:
"ADMIN, you gunna block every IP im on? ROFL.. don't waste your time ;)
<3
proxies ;)"
I know, we could whois the IPs and complain to the ISP but my partner is
a
tech support supervisor for Earthlink and he says that Earthlink does not
act
on these types of complaints. I don't know if this vandal's ISP will be
so
ambivalent. Most ISPs seem to not care what their users do so long as
EULAs
are not violated.
I'm not sure what to do -- this person will almost certainly come back
again.
Any suggestions?
Good chance he's bluffing. Most folks only have a limited number of
choices
as to ISPs and when vandalism starts costing money they give up. ISPs may ignore complaints but we could all complain and maybe that would not be ignored if this turns out to be a persistant guy.
Fred Bauder
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