--- Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com 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?
Jimbo you are an ISP owner, what do you think?
--mav
Well, we can use the old fashion UseModWiki way of dealing with vandalism: seven to ten people watching Recent Changes and undoing things faster than the vandal can do them. They tend to go away when their masterpieces don't last 30 seconds.
The problem with IP banning is not only that people have dynamic IP numbers. It is trival to use a list of anonymous proxy servers to change your IP after every edit. There are even programs that will rotate through your proxy list every thirty seconds. In this case, banning becomes as much work as simply dogging the person and reverting the pages.
Stephen G.
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