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We had to ban the IP block for an entire university due to troublemakers, but the problem is that one of our regulars was from the same U. One of us happened to know about such a forwarding service, so we gave him the address after a strict warning and promise that he'd behave himself.

He was having a rough time, and nobody wanted to be the one to tell him he was going to be kicked by association, so it was lucky we had a workaround.

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Banning an ip block is always a bonehead move. Its trivial for an attacker to change ips, fix the root problem.

“The early 90’s” is coming up on 30 years ago. Do you even remember 30 years ago?

The sort of people who could do that back then generally had much better things to do with their time. And resources. When you’re dealing with idiots who only have access to dialup or their university computer lab, it doesn’t take much to stop them. It was just a bunch of 20 year olds trying to have fun. Not defense networks.

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