[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia is under attack

[Pierre Abbat]

On Thursday 19 December 2002 22:44, 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.

It's a bunch of AOL proxies. I complained to abuse at aol.net and got an answer 
(below) that suggested that I should complain to one of several other 
addresses beginning with "tos" but gave me no clue that it actually tossed 
the message at any of them.

phma
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