2008/12/9 Andrew Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bear in mind that for most sites which allow user upload... well, > their system would work quite well. URL blacklisted, disappears from > view; the rest of the site is unaffected. Even were someone to spam > youtube with abusive videos, they could be filtered without any > significant adverse effects once reported. Not many sites deal with > IPs of their visitors quite the way we do...
1) Their system was dropping connections under a wikipedia loads. Hitting them with youtube as well would cause issues. 2)while most sites don't use IPs to the extent we do most of them like having them available as a factor to work with and taking that away would annoy them 3)Depending on who is operating the proxies in question privacy issues start kicking in. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
