[Wikipedia-l] multi-headed VANDALS

[Daniel Mayer]

On Monday 29 July 2002 01:58 am, Imran wrote:
> Most EULAs are so broad that it's hard not to violate them, bring to
> the ISP the exact sections of their AUP that has been violated,
> include all IPs involved with timestamps of access.
>
> Also follow up with a phone call if necessary.
>
> If that fails we should set up a mechanism such that anyone
> accessing the webpage from that ISP has a note attached to the
> top saying "Due to a failure by $ISPName$ to take action against
> an attack against wikipedia we are considering removing write
> access from users coming from this ISP. Please help us to avoid
> doing this by contacting your ISPs abuse department and making
> your views on the matter felt to them".

This sounds reasonable to me. I hope we will never have to make good on such 
a threat though -- I know I get majorly pissed when I can't send an email to 
somebody because my ISP has been blacklisted by my recipient's ISP because 
somebody on my ISP is a low-life spammer.

--mav