The problem is not so much that he edits from a range as much as he abuses proxies.
If you don't know, proxies are a way to appear as if you are posting from a different address. So in reality a determined person like grawp can continue to use unblocked proxies until we block them all. ( Blocking *all* proxies is nigh on impossible because computers get comprimised daily... So new "open proxies" are created daily.) In theory as long as grawp has the motivation, he can keep this game up indefinitely, until he is stopped by someone offline (police, parents) or until we have working programs that reliably detect his behavior and undoes it without human assistance. If it were just the one range we would have blocked it long ago, but it is not. On 1/18/09, brewhaha%40edmc.net <[email protected]> wrote: > I hav dynamic IP, myself, and it seems that typically, I get the same IP I > had last time if it is available, and it is always within the same 64k > block. What is more impractical is the manpower demanded by what we are > doing now, which is blocking one IP# at a time. > > "Al Tally" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:47 AM, brewhaha%40edmc.net >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Do we not yet hav a policy regarding open proxies (relays)? I would think >>> that anonymizer.com and anything like it is blocked indefinitely. hotmail >>> and gmail blocked anonymizer.com. Why should we not? As a jeneral rule, >>> open >>> relays for e-mail are listed and blocked, so as a jeneral rule, mail >>> relays >>> only serve congestion physics and paying users. >>> >> >> Yes, we do have a rule. We also have a rule against vandalism. Hanson does >> not care for rules. Anonymizer.com is just one proxy. There are thousands >> of >> proxies. He also edits through a normal ISP. We can't range block that; it >> would be impractical. >> >> -- >> Alex >> (User:Majorly) >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
