[WikiEN-l] Re: Anonymous proxies (was Re: Desysop Morwen)

Sun Feb 15 01:58:25 UTC 2004

In message <c0mj8b$jh3$1 at sea.gmane.org>, Tim Starling 
<ts4294967296-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> writes
>
>Arwel Parry wrote
>> 207.44.154.35? Hell, I blocked him on the Welsh Wikipedia last Wednesday
>> for vandalising [[cy:Hafan]], the Main Page to promote some "NESARA"
>> rubbish (it wasn't even in Welsh, which might be a little more
>> forgivable!). He was back today doing a minor bit of vandalism to one of
>> the date entries, and got blocked again. Is there any way to permanently
>> block an IP address?
>
>207.44.154.35 is the popular anonymous proxy http://www.anonymization.net,
>and as such is used by lots of different vandals. Anonymous proxies are
>regularly used for vandalism, and once we block one, the vandal just moves
>to another one. On meta recently we've had a bot operating to vandalise tens
>of articles, via an anonymous proxy.
>
>Would there be any objections to systematically blocking all anonymous
>proxies on a site-wide basis?

No objection from me!

-- 
Arwel Parry
http://www.cartref.demon.co.uk/