[WikiEN-l] Should we block unregistered AOL users?

Wed Jul 12 03:54:20 UTC 2006

If this works, this is literally a new era of wikipedia vandal-fighting.

On 7/11/06, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've just had confirmation that this should be working. From AOL this
> morning:
>
> > I have just now added all the domains you have listed below to our
> > config to get XFF headers. You should see them sometime later today when
> > the process is finished updating all of our web proxies.
>
> Thanks to Jim Sheafer for setting this up, and to Mike Wise for
> putting me in contact with him.
>
> Hopefully this means you can now block one AOL user without affecting
> another one.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advice_to_AOL_users should
> probably be updated when we're sure this is working.
>
> Angela.
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