[Wikipedia-l] multi-headed VANDALS

[Steve Callaway]

Alternatively,  we are now sufficiently established and have enough gravitas
that we could //persuade// the ISP in question that it would be in their
best interests to block malefactors. I leave it to your collective
imaginations what our response could be, but we could certainly do a
full-featured article on uncooperative and problematic ISPs for example....
Or we could block them entirely.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Bauder" <fredbaud at ctelco.net>
To: <wikipedia-l at nupedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] multi-headed VANDALS


> 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
>
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