> From: Matt Sergeant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Friday, Mar 14, 2003, at 13:46 Europe/London, Steven Noels wrote: > > > while briefly checking the Wiki, I was confronted with some apparent > > abuse: people uploading attachments which don't have much > to do with > > Cocoon (possibly just making benefit of the bandwidth we are > > sponsoring), people playing around on certain non-Sandbox > pages, even > > to the extreme of erasing the Main page, and various other > > not-so-funny things. I'm very happy to see some people go in and > > correct, and the new 'restore latest version' feature of > JSPWiki sure > > helps with this. > > > > Nevertheless, I'm annoyed a bit by the lack of adult > behaviour by some > > IP addresses, and was wondering whether (and how) I should > block them. > > I know this sounds pretty harsh, and that's why I'm polling > you guys > > to see what you would think would be a fair policy. > > FYI, when people do this on the Apache AxKit Wiki, I block > their IP at > our firewall. Harsh, but fair. And no complaints so far. >
This only helps to some point because (at least in Europe) many people use dial-in connections with changing IP adresses. A second problem arises with "enforced" proxies. My cable provider installed a proxy and I have to use it for all HTTP connections whether I like it or not. Just some thoughts ... Reinhard
