[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia is under attack

[Zoe]

Then what do you suggest be done?
Zoe
 Jens Frank <JeLuF at gmx.de> wrote:On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 07:46:00PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 07:44:42PM -0800, Zoe wrote:
> > Someone with ip addresses beginning with 152.163 is deleting article,
> > vandalizing, modifying, and variously randomly changing whatever articles
> > they happen to encounter. The IP address changes with each change. We
> > need to do something quick.
> 
> fsck. Looks like wikipedia has attracted a vandal who has enough skill
> to spoof his IP's. No ideas on how to deal with that one.
> 

He's not spoofing. He's just an AOL user and AOL has a farm of web proxies.
The IP you see is the IP of AOL's proxy server, not that of his PC.
Please don't ban these IPs.

JeLuF
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