QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Thu 25th March 2010, 7:38pm)
QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Thu 25th March 2010, 6:14pm)
Hmmm. If you look at user:80.169.89.66 on WP
it says it's just one outlet IP port of COLT Telcom GmbH, which is a proxy-server. Ironic that Jimbo is using one (since users are generally not supposed to), but I don't necessarily thing it puts him in the Colt Telcom offices. Anymore than I'm in Reston, VA when I use Comcast.
And you trust
FabrictrampÂ
(T-C-L-K-R-D)
to have come to that conclusion responsibly? It seems far more likely that that information was provided by someone who sought to conceal Freud's involvement. It's fairly clear from RIPE records that that IP address is assigned to Freud, who gets their transit service from COLT's UK division, along with IP neighbors Comac Capital LLP and Fragomen GB Limited, both also UK corporations. Also, the .66 address is the second IP (out of 64) in the range allocated to Freud. Freud is using a 3com device, possibly a 3036, as their gateway device, at 80.169.89.65, so .66 is the first available IP on their address block and is likely used either as the PAT address for the internal network or for an internal HTTP proxy server. Their email is outsourced to Frontbridge and their web hosting to Publicis Technology of Paris, France, so they probably have no public services on the 80.169.86.64/26 network, making that allocation a waste of at least 48 and arguably as many as 63 perfectly good IP addresses.
The statement that the IP is a "proxy server" is probably technically correct, as is the statement that the IP belongs to COLT Telecom. It's just that the proxy server is owned by Freud and used only by Freud, and the IP, while "owned" by COLT is being leased to Freud for their exclusive use. Exactly the sort of "truth" I expect from a marketing firm. The idea that a PR firm would attempt to conceal by misdirection their involvement in Wikipedia is, of course, completely unfathomable. And we've had plenty of demonstrations from people (such as the esteemed
Alison) of the general incompetence of Wikipedia's administrators at interpreting forensic IP evidence.
Thank you. Fascinating! So as I read you, we can with reasonable certainty conclude that Jimbo cannot have posted from that IP address by simply using COLT somewhere else in the UK. He's posting from a block assigned permanently to Freud, and while the IPs may rotate fromwhat within that, if they come out to the net at 80.169.89.66, as Jimbo's just did, they have to go IN from a computer connecting to the net via a Freud-owned company server. Which would mean that Jimbo at least was in the Freud company offices someplace, using their WiFi from his laptop to access the net from their company.
I think Tarantino is right-- this sort of doesn't pass the sniff test for somebody who has been up on their high horse about paid editing on WP. Particularly not with a firm that has already been caught doing it wrong.
So Jimbo's talking to a really big PR firm in London, one that has already been caught getting paid to edit articles for clients on WP years ago (yeah, sure, they've stopped doing that, I bet). So, do we think Jimbo's in their offices to do some kind of business with them? It's not like WMF to pay money to anybody if they can get it for free or by trading something for it. What sort of informal deal do you suppose WMF and Jimbo are doing with Freud?
Let me guess, according to WMF's spokesman, it must be that Jimbo is after what WMF is always after from PR flacks: photos of Freud's offices that Jimbo can upload to COMMONS to illustrate a neutrally written article about the company. Ya think? (IMG:
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Stupidly,
MR