[CIMC-work] second response on blocking spammer

[Ian Bicking]

Garth Liebhaber wrote:
> i was pretty diligent in chasing his trolling the last time 
> around.  i think if anyone clearly qualifies to be blocked, it 
> would be this gent.  let's just try to be diligent.
> 
> though, here's an idea.  if we've got his email, perhaps 
> there is a way to initiate correspondence via an 
> anonymous email and thus secure the ip address.  do we 
> want to be so cloak and dagger, though?  

No, that would be way more difficult.  It's not actually very hard to 
log an IP address, but we'd have to sort this guy's address from 
everyone else's, and I'm a little worried about setting up the code, 
because then we'll have dormant code for tracking IP addresses and I 
don't really like that precedent.

Hmm... maybe we could put an image on the page when an article 
submission goes through, and leave it there for just a little bit 
pointing to another server, collect the stats that way, then tear that 
all out.

(And none of this will work if he has dialup)