[WikiEN-l] Policy on breaches of bans

Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au
Sat Oct 22 14:18:29 UTC 2005


G'day Anthony,

> On 10/21/05, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> We can't block his IP-range, if understand it he's editing from 
>> 203.xxx and 141.xxx. That's 1/128th of the entire internet 
>> (approximately)!
> 
> How is he able to do this? Is there a particular ISP which uses these
> IPs, or is he going from multiple IPs, or what? Can the ISP be
> contacted? That'd be the first step. Failing that, I'd actually

It's probably time to start contacting ISPs, yeah.

> suggest trying to get some sort of injunction through the legal
> system (Australia, I suppose, and one of the other editors claims to
> actually have known the person). "Don't touch Wikipedia again, or

Well, via USENET.  I mean, I haven't actually sat down and had coffee 
and joked about the electoral roll with him.  But I s'pose it's possible 
one day; this is a small city, after all.

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