Wikipedia:Abuse response/68.96.16.71

Discussion

This IP has gotten blocked five times for vandalism and has a bunch of warnings on its talk page. However, the WHOIS data and nslookup fail to turn up any evidence that this is a school. A recent open proxy check shows that this is not one of them, and the checker thinks that this is probably a school. However, WHOIS states that the owner of this IP is Cox Communications, a cable company which sells cable modem services. If this is a school, we need to let its administrators know about the situation. If it is just a bad cable modem customer, a bad relative of a cable modem customer, or someone using an open Wi-Fi router, Cox needs to be notified so that it can throw off the bad customer or have the customer do something about the bad relative or enable WPA2 on the Wi-Fi.Jesse Viviano (talk) 04:40, 22 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Well done, you've found an IP address eligible for an abuse report, but you're silly to think that a school would use cable, most of them have too many students and staff for a cable system to accept. I'll be contacting Cox shortly. GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 01:27, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree that schools are probably not the best use of a cable modem. However, some cable companies also rent out leased lines or use them in their franchise agreements to get discounts on their franchise fees with local governments. Jesse Viviano (talk) 09:31, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Do they really?! Well, if it does belong to a school, then Cox will probably let the school know, but if it's a residential cable modem, then who knows what they'll do. GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 23:55, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * By the way, I'd shorten that block so that it expires at the end of this month so we'll know whether the abuse report worked. If activity continues, I'd extend the block. But you probably have more experience than me, so do what you feel is best. GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 23:58, 28 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I contacted COX again about the recent vandalism, hopefully they'll do little more than warn them this time, which is probably what they did before. I don't think this is a school IP, I think the domain would be a little different than it is if it were. GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 21:55, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Contact made
The following abuse report was sent to abuse@cox.net on 02/22/2008:

Please see these vandalism logs: THESE LOGS USE GMT -05:00

Log of 68.96.16.71:
 * (complete vandalism log here)

Their response
Auto reply recieved - GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 01:39, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Reattempting Contact
Since it has been a while since anyone from Abuse reports has sent an abuse report to the responsible organization, I'm going to send another email to notify them of the abuse. If you need to contact me, please message me on my talk page. Thanks.

I've closed all requests that have this template, because a second attempt was done to contact the responsible organizations. The results were overall positive, as I did receive some replies that indicated that the responsible organization was going to look into the issue. The reports that were sent to ISPs all received automated responses, also promising to look into every case. Netalarm 15:28, 21 July 2009 (UTC)  Netalarm  05:00, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Update