[Wikipedia-l] Re: Arms race.

Tue Nov 12 00:54:33 UTC 2002

On Monday 11 November 2002 04:43 pm, wikipedia-l-request at wikipedia.org wrote:
> >People have stated that the percentage of vandalism by anonymous users
> >has gone up recently.
> >
> >Is this simply because we have instituted IP blocking, and increasingly
> >use it?
> >
> >It's hardly unlikely. In fact, it's what normally happens when hard
> >security measures are taken.
>
> Surely you mean to say "logged in users" at the end of the first line?
> Then yes, this is what happens when people meet with hard security,
> they find ways to work around it.
>
>
> -- Toby

That is why we should always try to follow vandals around and fix their 
vandalism first before resorting to a block. 

--Daniel Mayer (aka mav) 