On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 22:06:20 +0100, Allan Crossman
<a.crossman(a)blueyonder.co.uk> gave utterance to the following:
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?
Why make life difficult? If we actually know a vandal's IP address, why
allow
him to use it with all the 30 accounts he's already created?
The point is that for most of the world, IP addresses are dynamically
assigned, changing each time you dial in via modem. The whole point of
making IP blocks short-lived is to avoid the scenario where vandal is
blocked, goes off the internet, and a legitimate user dials in to the
same ISP and gets the same IP number (coincidence, maybe, but it does
happen, and will happen more often once blocking becomes easier).
The legitimate user deserves the right to use wikipedia. If the user who
logs in vandalises wikipedia, then they should be blocked by username.
--
Richard Grevers
Between two evils always pick the one you haven't tried