On 7/1/05, Wouter Steenbeek musiqolog@hotmail.com wrote:
Walter, perhaps it sounds rude, but else do you want? There will surely be something serious (a vandal bot with open proxies, for instance), otherwise they will not take such a rigorous step. And to be quite frank: I prefer excluding some good-willing people from editing Wikipedia to letting a maniacal nerd ravage the whole project. I quite clearly remember such an attack on li:, some time ago.
Actually SORBS is pretty frequently wrong. The IP address we had a home a while back (before wikipedia used sorbs) was marked as having an open proxy... Which is had... a year ago. SORBS ignored all emails from me, because they require the provider to take action. My provider ignored my emails because they know I don't have any other choices (other than paying for a real t1)...
Eventually I changed IP addresses.. now someone else is being goofed.