[Foundation-l] complaining to ISPs

[Jeff V. Merkey]

James Hare wrote:

>Oooh! War of attrition!
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>James approves.
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I had to do the same thing to chinanet and several other asian ISPs as 
well -- they remain blocked -- permanently.

Jeff

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>On 8/4/06, Jeffrey V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
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>>geni wrote:
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>>>On 8/4/06, Nathan Carter <cartmanau at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>Is there already a section within the foundation which can deal with
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>>this?
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>>>>If not is some form of "abuse reporting" procedure needed?
>>>>I think the best way to do it is for the foundation itself to do the
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>>>>work so to speak, which should avoid any privacy issues.
>>>>Cheers,
>>>>Nathan Carter (Cartman02au)
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>>>While that may be an option in the short term in the long run this is
>>>likely to become more common and thus it is probably best that there
>>>to be a way to deal with this below foundation level.
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>>Most of the ISP's ignore these reports, including DCMA takedown notices
>>(they just throw them in the trash). One very effective
>>method that both works and gets their attention I have used at
>>WikiGadugi dissuades 100% of vandals, gets the ISP's attention, and
>>gets the problem fixed immediately. It is as follows:
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>>1. When I first setup WikiGadugi, I had the distinct pleasure of being
>>visited by WillyonWheels from the UK.
>>2. I tried the whole page move vandal, blocking, blah blah blah, it only
>>made him more persistent.
>>3. I wrote a shim program into IP tables as a MediaWiki addon that does
>>WHOIS lookup everytime
>>the IP address gets used to write a page and saves not only the IP
>>address for the write, but the ISP range as well.
>>4. The shim checks a file not visible where I record IP addresses for
>>vandal addresses and autoblocks the entire ISP IP range AT THE FIREWALL
>>blocking both reading and writing, shutting down all access for that ISP.
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>>I had someone from the UK email me (my email servers are on a separate
>>network) from this ISP range. It was
>>blueyonder.uk and apparently, other universities were studying the
>>Cherokee translation and wondered why the site was down. It was not long
>>before the ISP notified me a certain account was "suspended".
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>>I would suggest creating a banned ISP listing with ranges based on
>>persistent vandals, and when they suspend the accounts, you will unblock
>>them
>>at the firewall. It fixed my vandalism problems. I have 0% vandalism at
>>the WikiGadugi site and I stuck it to WillyOnWheels.
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>>Jeff
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