[WikiEN-l] someone after non-active admin accounts

[Jay Litwyn]

Summon a checkuser with a suspected sockpuppet template on their front page.
Those are *mainly* the ones who see IP#s and whois search links on those 
IP#s.

"Abigail Brady" <morwen at evilmagic.org> wrote in message 
news:68e55ace0905210832g75a27ee5ha7a36217a2045d9b at mail.gmail.com...
> The headers indicate it was sent through the 'email this user feature': my
> mailhost received it directly from wikimedia.org.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=Wp_freedom_fighter
>
> indicates the account was created May 10, although it doesn't seem to have
> done anything after creation.
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Jay Litwyn 
> <brewhaha at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
>> wrote:
>
>> Abigail Brady carbon-copied an e-mail purportedly from
>> user:Wp_freedom_fighter (if you follow the trailing indications of 
>> source,
>> which were probably written manually) and that user does not seem to
>> egzist,
>> nor do they seem to hav ever egzisted. All I get on google is games and 
>> Sri
>> Lankan war heroes.
>> <a
>> href="
>> http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=6db52210dc1d573db450917c2f128df3&showtopic=24308&pid=172868&st=0&#entry172868
>> ">
>> Unless you count this -CC- to someone else</a>. In other words, this user
>> has nothing to lose but a gmail account, or so they think. googlemail
>> tracks
>> ISPs. An ISP might even be in the received headers. It is best that the
>> complaint come from her and in her own words.
>> _______
>> <a 
>> href="http://ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/finance/Manual_Spam_Control.htm<http://ecn.ab.ca/%7Ebrewhaha/finance/Manual_Spam_Control.htm>
>> ">Some
>> clues about how you figure such things out are here.</a> A whois search 
>> on
>> X-Originating-IP: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX might let her bypass googlemail, which 
>> is
>> understandably bottle-necked.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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