Re: Does anyone have a copy of eukat's irc.e?
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jun 04, 2013
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It was entire ISPs that were banned; not a particularly ideal situation to block just one user..
In general, this is true. However, dealing with ban-evading users requires skilled operators and dedication of significant amounts of time to deal with them. At the time of the bans, this was considered acceptable based on the level of user traffic and op availablity - but it was no doubt a compromise, and one that required constant reevaluation.
Also, I recall it was a shell host that was banned. It's not like we were banning an ISP that would have included Mrs. Johnson of the PTA of Eureka, Ohio.
Some nets banned all of AOL for a time,
This happened to me. (Yes, I once used AOL. Ugh.) I once tried to get onto a site (several decades ago), but could not. The operators were emailed, and the response was something along the lines of "Sorry, it's not personal, but we had to ban all of AOL."
Ugh. I currently use Verizon 3G, which has one IP for the whole region; somehow, this managed to get into a blacklist, and I was banned from reading any blogs, Wikipedia, virtually the whole Internet. I couldn't even use Google. I eventually settled on tunneling everything thru another machine which at least has its own IP..
Things to keep in mind when doing any kind of IP-ban lol..
Oh yeah, a lot of online service providers (AOL, but maybe also Prodigy and CompuServ when they existed, and certainly MSN) do things like that - you're basically natted behind a big server and share a single IP address with a bunch of other customers.
I have Verizon 3G as well, but my devices seem to have their own unchanging IP address. Hmm.
