[Wikipedia-l] multi-headed VANDALS

[Fred Bauder]

At 09:14 PM 7/27/02 -0700, you wrote:
>I just blocked 3 IPs of a vandal similar to if not the same as the previous 
>one. Both events involved more than one IP being used by a single individual.
>
>Please see http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist
>
>One of the messages this person left was: 
>
>"ADMIN, you gunna block every IP im on? ROFL.. don't waste your time ;) <3 
>proxies ;)"
>
>I know, we could whois the IPs and complain to the ISP but my partner is a 
>tech support supervisor for Earthlink and he says that Earthlink does not
act 
>on these types of complaints. I don't know if this vandal's ISP will be so 
>ambivalent. Most ISPs seem to not care what their users do so long as EULAs 
>are not violated. 
>
>I'm not sure what to do -- this person will almost certainly come back
again. 
> 
>Any suggestions?

Good chance he's bluffing. Most folks only have a limited number of choices
as to ISPs and when vandalism starts costing money they give up. ISPs may
ignore complaints but we could all complain and maybe that would not be
ignored if this turns out to be a persistant guy.

Fred Bauder