On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Chris Down neuro.wikipedia@googlemail.com wrote:
Divulging his IP to his provider seems standard, advisable, and perfectly ethical. We aren't just talking about minor vandalism, he has inspired numerous copycats and has harassed (or his copycats have) many editors.
I've not looked, but if our privacy policy disallows this even in such circumstances as this, we need to look at revising it.
It does, very explicitly. Discussing it on an open, publicly archived mailing list is a different matter and really seems quite unnecessary.