Andre Engels wrote:
2006/3/19, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com>om>:
The current situation seems to be that all AOL
users are blocked
pending cooperation from AOL in trying to stop vandalism. This seems
like a good approach to me.
Not to me. It's not the IP's task to micromanage the online behaviour
of their users. And why single out AOL? Why not block ALL users until
their ISP starts to cooperate?
We single out AOL because they are the only ISP we know of that categorically refuses to
append XFF
headers to proxy requests. Today, before I read this mailing list thread, I wrote this
page on the
subject:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/XFF_project
One of the ISPs on the trusted list (EscapeNet) is only there because I emailed them and
asked them
to change their proxy configuration. Their response was fast and friendly. My hope is that
other
ISPs will follow their lead, and that eventually the problem of shared IP addresses will
be mostly
isolated to AOL.
As for AOL itself: sad to say, but we might need to put up some entry barriers. Bug 550 is
an
extreme example of this: a feature which would let sysops restrict access to trusted users
only.
Email confirmation with an
aol.com address required would be better.
-- Tim Starling