Someone with ip addresses beginning with 152.163 is deleting article, vandalizing, modifying, and variously randomly changing whatever articles they happen to encounter. The IP address changes with each change. We need to do something quick.
Zoe
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 07:44:42PM -0800, Zoe wrote:
Someone with ip addresses beginning with 152.163 is deleting article, vandalizing, modifying, and variously randomly changing whatever articles they happen to encounter. The IP address changes with each change. We need to do something quick.
fsck. Looks like wikipedia has attracted a vandal who has enough skill to spoof his IP's. No ideas on how to deal with that one.
Jonathan
On 12/19/02 10:46 PM, "Jonathan Walther" krooger@debian.org wrote:
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 07:44:42PM -0800, Zoe wrote:
Someone with ip addresses beginning with 152.163 is deleting article, vandalizing, modifying, and variously randomly changing whatever articles they happen to encounter. The IP address changes with each change. We need to do something quick.
fsck. Looks like wikipedia has attracted a vandal who has enough skill to spoof his IP's. No ideas on how to deal with that one.
Just wait a while. It's not a big deal.
It's a big deal to those of us who keep reverting all of the idiot's changes, especially since this isn't the first time he's done this. It's the third. Zoe The Cunctator cunctator@kband.com wrote:On 12/19/02 10:46 PM, "Jonathan Walther" wrote:
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 07:44:42PM -0800, Zoe wrote:
Someone with ip addresses beginning with 152.163 is deleting article, vandalizing, modifying, and variously randomly changing whatever articles they happen to encounter. The IP address changes with each change. We need to do something quick.
fsck. Looks like wikipedia has attracted a vandal who has enough skill to spoof his IP's. No ideas on how to deal with that one.
Just wait a while. It's not a big deal.
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On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 13:09, Zoe wrote:
It's a big deal to those of us who keep reverting all of the idiot's changes, especially since this isn't the first time he's done this. It's the third. Zoe
If it bothers you, then don't revert the changes. Let someone else do it. There are more of us than there are of him.
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 07:46:00PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote:
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 07:44:42PM -0800, Zoe wrote:
Someone with ip addresses beginning with 152.163 is deleting article, vandalizing, modifying, and variously randomly changing whatever articles they happen to encounter. The IP address changes with each change. We need to do something quick.
fsck. Looks like wikipedia has attracted a vandal who has enough skill to spoof his IP's. No ideas on how to deal with that one.
He's not spoofing. He's just an AOL user and AOL has a farm of web proxies. The IP you see is the IP of AOL's proxy server, not that of his PC. Please don't ban these IPs.
JeLuF
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He's not spoofing. He's just an AOL user and AOL has a farm of web proxies. The IP you see is the IP of AOL's proxy server, not that of his PC. Please don't ban these IPs.
How would everyone feel if proxy isp users were required to log in to make changes? They can chose their ISP, and if they don't like it, they can go Earthink.
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Christopher Mahan wrote:
He's not spoofing. He's just an AOL user and AOL has a farm of web proxies. The IP you see is the IP of AOL's proxy server, not that of his PC. Please don't ban these IPs.
How would everyone feel if proxy isp users were required to log in to make changes? They can chose their ISP, and if they don't like it, they can go Earthink.
I'd prefer if we didn't do that.
It might be useful to rate-limit edits from certain known "problem proxies".
Then what do you suggest be done? Zoe Jens Frank JeLuF@gmx.de wrote:On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 07:46:00PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote:
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 07:44:42PM -0800, Zoe wrote:
Someone with ip addresses beginning with 152.163 is deleting article, vandalizing, modifying, and variously randomly changing whatever articles they happen to encounter. The IP address changes with each change. We need to do something quick.
fsck. Looks like wikipedia has attracted a vandal who has enough skill to spoof his IP's. No ideas on how to deal with that one.
He's not spoofing. He's just an AOL user and AOL has a farm of web proxies. The IP you see is the IP of AOL's proxy server, not that of his PC. Please don't ban these IPs.
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On Thursday 19 December 2002 22:44, Zoe wrote:
Someone with ip addresses beginning with 152.163 is deleting article, vandalizing, modifying, and variously randomly changing whatever articles they happen to encounter. The IP address changes with each change. We need to do something quick.
It's a bunch of AOL proxies. I complained to abuse@aol.net and got an answer (below) that suggested that I should complain to one of several other addresses beginning with "tos" but gave me no clue that it actually tossed the message at any of them.
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