On 5/2/07, Aude audevivere@gmail.com wrote:
What other things can the school network administrator and staff do? Any suggestions?
They could probably provide information about the internal IP structure of the institution. I'm not sure if by "school" you're mainly referring to high schools or universities, but they could possibly tell us which IP ranges are used by staff, and hence shouldn't be blocked, for example.
Do we have an effective mechanism for saying "Sorry, your IP comes from a network known for anonymous vandalism. If you'd like to edit Wikipedia, you'll need to create an account"? I know in the past we couldn't do that, but seem to recall things changing. Perhaps we could even enforce the use of email addresses in such instances? There should be no shame in upping our hurdle to contribution for networks with a long history of vandalism.
Steve