Wikipedia Editors Block Overstock Corporate IP Addresses For Spamming

[mandy]

This appears to be a two-items-on-Overstock.com day. Well, it's not for nothing that they call this sleazy Internet retailer "the gift that keeps on giving."

It seems that one of Judd Bagley's "black ops" targets, Wikipedia, is getting sick and tired of being abused and spammed by this company. Wikipedia today banned editing from every Overstock.com IP address.

full article: http://garyweiss.blogspot.com/2007/09/wi...ckcom.html

From the Wikipedia Administrators' noticeboards incidents:

Overstock.com/WordBomb/Judd Bagley

I've just blocked 65.116.112.0/21, which is an IP range (a) owned by Overstock.com (b) widely used by them for spamming, COI editing and attempted intimidation of administrators dealing with them. I strongly suggest against unblocking this range under any circumstances; requested unblocks should probably be run past the ArbCom, who are very aware of Bagley/Overstock's odious work, before acting - David Gerard 13:33, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

full discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:A...udd_Bagley


more discussion of spamming on the Overstock entry's "talk" page at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Overstock.com

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