On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 20:31:32 +0100, Allan Crossman a.crossman@blueyonder.co.uk gave utterance to the following:
May I suggest one more piece of logic? An IP block is automatically released if a non-banned user logs in on it. (which means that the IP has been reassigned away from the vandal)
Hrmm. I thought part of the joy of IP blocks was that vandal user accounts can't come in from that IP either. I've used this at least once to ban a logged- in vandal.
If a user on the same IP continues the pattern of vandalism, surely we would ban that user?
A vandal shouldn't be able to escape the block by creating new user accounts (or falling back to user accounts that already exist)
Perhaps creation of user accounts should be disallowed if the IP number is temporarily blocked.