Hsefline should be hardline... Sorry about the double post.

On 1/18/09, Wilhelm Schnotz <wilh...@nixeagle.org> wrote:
> Then I think the thing to do is urge the developers to provide some
> sort of global block list... Perhaps this is an issue to discuss on
> meta.
>
> From what you describe, wikimedia would have to take a hsefline
> against *all* proxies on *all* wikimedia foundation wikis. This would
> then have to be enforced by a global IP block list...
>
> On 1/18/09, Christopher Grant <chrisgrantm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> We have bots that do that, grawp still gets through(part of the reason is
>> that these proxies need to be blocked globally or else grawp can still
>> abuse
>> SUL and TOR to create accounts and make the required 10 edits before he
>> has
>> to find an unblocked proxy on enwiki).
>> - Chris
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:25 AM, K. Peachey <p858sn...@yahoo.com.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> >can continue to use unblocked proxies until we block them all. (
>>> >Blocking *all* proxies is nigh on impossible because computers get
>>> >comprimised daily... So new "open proxies" are created daily.)
>>> Maybe it would if we could hook someone like
>>> <http://www.1freeproxy.com/feed/atom/> (rss feed for just proxies) in
>>> so that they are automatically blocked, which i believe is Wikipedia's
>>> policy anyway.
>>>
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