Uhm...people still leave hate comments on blogs? That is so 2003. This year it's all about people wanting to buy my underwear, this person needs to keep up!

Someone else is stalking you? I thought I was your No. 1 fan!

Many companies assign IP addresses dynamically, so you might have to block a whole range instead of just this single one (so that anyone from 166.77.6.x or 166.77.x.x) is blocked. You can probably also contact Viacom's corporate security group with dates and times of this person's comments to see if they can address it internally...

So Viacom will give some stalker a gig, but not a hard working guy like me?

peace

you can block IP address? wow. i need to learn how to do that.

You're one of 4 blogs i read online. and i hate to admit that to you because a blog is more or less self serving enough. i'd hate to be another pawn to your ego.

but i check your site enough times throughout the day when im idle at my desk.

i've been blog stalked for three years by some nutso, ever since i banned him from jrs. honestly, there's really no way to stop them. they will find a way to "continue the relationship". it's quite sad really.

well it is now more about the blog than toby. have you noticed it toby.

James, you posted that comment at 9:51 AM, I hope not on company time, since you are hard working and devote every minute to being productive. (JK)

It depends on what class license of IP the company (viacom) owns.

If they own an A-class license for instance, you would have to block the last three groups, like this: 166.x.x.x

However if its B or C class then the above comments suggestions will do.

Also that IP-adress is just the external IP and probably dosen't belong to him personnaly but rather a number of people that are on the same network as him.

DC,

I am hard-working, but don't worry. I did all of that typing on my own time. No big company was cheated out of anything (at least by me)

peace

What a bunch of pathetic losers. Toby gets a critical comment, and beware, he becomes the stalker.

It doesn't matter what class of IP Viacom have. What matters is how they dole it out to their subscribers.

They are also highly unlikely to have a class A address block (there are only 126 of these in the entire world), and if they did they wouldn't be giving dial-in users full roam of the address space (16 million posible hosts), they would instead limit it to an easily controllable chunk, while likely leasing the other parts off to corporate users, so in that event you'd still only be banning 166.77.x.x.

Sorry to nerd this blog up, but it annoys me when people misrepresent how networking works.

Didn't blogstalking go out of style with J.Lo?

I think I'm officially crushin' on you now. Thanks.

midnight lounge

I think all us bloggers have at least one person like this... I have one who visits multiple times a day. He doesn't try to leave comments any more after he realized that they wouldn't get posted, but he still visits at least twice each day.