[Foundation-l] Global blocking needs to be halted for now

[Pedro Sanchez]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Alex <mrzmanwiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> the dave ross wrote:
>> I think it is very unfortunate that we allow individuals (vandals) to have
>> such a huge impact on both the administrative volunteers and the general
>> contributing public.  This whole global IP block issue is a result of yet
>> another attempt we have made to stem prolific vandals, and yet another
>> attempt which causes more collateral damage than it prevents vandalism.
>
> [citation needed]
> Is there any data behind that? Or is it just based on the fact that
> there have been more complaints about collateral damage than there has
> praise for stopping vandals?
>