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

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Parker Peters [mailto:parkerpeters1002 at gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 01:22 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How to stop Encyclopedia Dramatica from making	attack articles on us
>
>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

Besides that, it is wrong. Best just to leave them alone.

Fred