Gregory Maxwell (gmaxwell@gmail.com) [050605 07:37]:
I think we must ultimately accept that blocking can not exclude someone from our community, and that is it not desirable to use it as a punitive measure, and only somewhat effective as a technical measure. Jumping through huge hoops to close every loophole will, ultimately, be as futile as a vandal trying to keep his bad edits in... and likely to cause lots of harm to others.
Yeah. We can ban people for ten lifetimes of the Universe, but, basically, it's just not technically possible to keep someone from editing Wikipedia if they *really want to*. All we can do is keep them from wreaking damage until they get bored.
- d.