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

[Parker Peters]

On 1/24/07, . <aroquk at juno.com> 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.
>

Attempting to set up an organized attack, especially by filing what may
arguably false reports, isn't going to help anyone's cause.

In fact, it could leave Wikipedia open to some legal troubles.

Parker