[Wikipedia-l] Blocked, insulted, and pissed

[Rob Brewer]

At 08:41 05/11/02 -0500, Poor, Edmund W wrote:

>Has anyone thought of selective banning?
>
>Refuse anonymous edits from the banned IP, but allow signed-in edits.
>
>We could supply a message like, "Sorry but due to abuse from IP i.j.k.l, 
>you must sign in to contribute."

I think that's what Erik Moeller had in mind with point #2 of his message
at 11:47:25 +0100 yesterday, and I think it's a good idea. If vandals want
to be persistent we should at least make them go to the trouble of
getting a fake hotmail address to sign up with ;-)


Rob