I understand that, when blocking vandals, blocking addresses that are actually AOL proxies is worse-than-useless: the vandal isn't blocked, and legit users will be. I have fallen afoul of this myself (and emailed apologies to aggrieved AOL users after unblocking).
So, here is a request: something on special:blockip that will warn you that you are about to block an AOL proxy (by IP number), and possibly even not let you do so.
Are all the AOL address ranges easily obtainable? (A simple query to ARIN, or perhaps emailing and asking AOL?)
- d.
After reading the thing about AOL proxies:
How possible would it be to go into a very temporary "elevated risk" level, where new anon IPs are not accepted for edit to foil the ip-proxied troll? Any ip anon with a valid cookie and a non-changing session ip that was instantiated prior to the "elevated threat" would be able to continue to edit.
I suggest that such elevated levels might last 10-15 minutes, renewable as long as the threat remains.
IP blocking would still work.
Thoughts?
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I use Primus-AOL in Australia. What's all this about proxies? I only rarely see my connection having two IP addresses (when the Supertunnel is active).
~User:Mark
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:48:12 +0000, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
I understand that, when blocking vandals, blocking addresses that are actually AOL proxies is worse-than-useless: the vandal isn't blocked, and legit users will be. I have fallen afoul of this myself (and emailed apologies to aggrieved AOL users after unblocking).
So, here is a request: something on special:blockip that will warn you that you are about to block an AOL proxy (by IP number), and possibly even not let you do so.
Are all the AOL address ranges easily obtainable? (A simple query to ARIN, or perhaps emailing and asking AOL?)
- d.
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We should do the same for freeserve proxies as well.
Caroline/Secretlondon
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