to fully combat the 1017 , several things need done.

1- Already full servers (pretty much all of them right now) need players to LEAVE those servers, forever. (Transfer to another, re-roll, etc)
2- they need to increase the population limit on servers
3- they need to limit character creation to the population limit (thus ensuring no over-population)

after all 3 of these are done - we would never see 1017 again.