[WikiEN-l] Michael again

Wed Jul 16 01:42:00 UTC 2003

Daniel-
> But we have been doing this for months already - he
> simply will not get the point! It is high time we
> complained to AOL about this person. If that doesn't
> work after a couple of trys then the whole IP range
> that he uses should be blocked

This might mean all of AOL. I don't think that's an acceptable option. But  
if you beg me a little, I'll hack our IP blocking code to
- make IP blocks auto-expire after a while (unless no limit is set), so  
that we can use them more effectively
- allow sysops to ban newly created accounts for the first 4 weeks or so  
and retrieve the IP address under which they were created.

That should make it easier to get rid of new Michael incarnations as they  
appear, and to keep track of the IP addresses he uses.

Regards,

Erik