[WikiEN-l] Hardblocking usernames

[madman bum and angel]

Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
> On 11 Aug 2007 at 15:24:46 -0400, "Joshua Brady" <somitho at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> RFC 1149 is IP over Avian Carriers not Carrier Pigeons, and is uselss
>> as RFC 2549 has QoS for IPoAC ;)
> 
> But are such avian-carrier users actually banned from Wikipedia 
> edits?  If this protocol were actually to be implemented, then any 
> packets sent by this means would be tagged with an originating IP 
> address, like any other Internet packets, and it would then be up to 
> Wikipedia policy to decide whether such IPs should be blocked due to 
> the potential of avian-carrier-based vandalism.  No such policy 
> exists now that I know of.

You beat me to it.  Indeed, if the architecture was there, then yes, we 
would allow editing from IPoAC.  Unless the pigeon in question is a Tor 
exit node with a policy allowing access to Wikipedia.  Using Tor *is* 
about as slow as using carrier pigeons, come to think of it.

-Madman