[WikiEN-l] How to stop Encyclopedia Dramatica from making attack articles on us

[Delirium]

. wrote:

>As you know, Encyclopedia Dramatica has attack articles on many
>Wikipedians. Well, they changed hosts so maybe their new host will care
>more about abuse reports.
>
>They used to be hosted by DreamHost who was unhelpful about abuse
>complaints. Dreamhost now only their DNS now.
>
>Their server IPs are:
>encyclopediadramatica.net 72.249.60.226 
>pr0n.encyclopediadramatica.com 72.249.60.227
>
>A whois lookup on these shows they comes from colo4dallas.com and a
>traceroute finds cogentco.com as the next closest hop. This means the
>email addresses to report abuse to are now: abuse at colo4dallas.com,
>support at colo4dallas.com, abuse at cogentco.com 
>
>If we get enough reports in, they may shut down their site.
>  
>
I definitely don't support this.  If they're doing something illegal 
(libel, etc.), then legal action may be warranted, but trying to 
strongarm an ISP into taking down a site isn't a good idea.

-Mark