On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Tomasz Ganicz <polime...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, the story with IWF have shown that the current system of > blocking vandals by their IP has to be changed ASAP. In fact it is > causing a lot of problems even without action of IWF and other similar > wachdogs. There are more and more ISPs which uses single IP for all > their customers. Do you rember the story of blocking Quatar? Actually, > vast majority of ISPs use dynamic IP numbers, which also causes > serious problems with effective blocking vandals.My current ISP is > using dynamic IP. In my office there are around 200 people using > single IP. I guess all OTRS volunteers and checkusers knows the issue > very well. The IP blocking is terribly old fashioned - it has been > implemented at the time where most of the IP's represented single > PC's. Actually very few IP numbers are "personal".
Do you have a suggestion? Not everyone uses XFF, certainly not ISPs with dynamic IPs, how would you suggest we block anonymous users? -- DCollins/ST47 Administrator, en.wikipedia.org Channel Operator, irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia Maintainer, Perlwikipedia module _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l