Divulging his IP to his provider seems standard, advisable, and perfectly ethical. We aren't just talking about minor vandalism, he has inspired numerous copycats and has harassed (or his copycats have) many editors.
I've not looked, but if our privacy policy disallows this even in such circumstances as this, we need to look at revising it. - Chris On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Wilhelm Schnotz <wilh...@nixeagle.org>wrote: > If he wanted his privacy he should have heeded the warnings to cease > the excessive and rather annoying vandalism he does. I don't think > giving Verizon this information is a violation of our privacy policy > as we are doing so to stop persistant vandalism and abuse. He has had > plenty of chances to stop. > > On 1/28/09, Kurt Maxwell Weber <k...@armory.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 January 2009 03:26, Jay Litwyn wrote: > >> Not in the case of an adult banned user and a SEEMINGLY unresponsive > ISP. > >> If anything, since one guy seems to hav openned a channel to Verizon's > >> abuse department, the problem might go away. I do not see any other way > to > >> do it, because police do not figure into the equation, as far as I hav > >> seen > >> in this guy's history. In short, "How would you do it?". > >> > > Yes, because a website is a WAY WAY WAY more important concern than the > > privacy of a real person. > > -- > > Kurt Weber > > <k...@armory.com> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > > User:Nixeagle on all wikimedia foundation wikis. > Administrator on English wikipedia and meta. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
