On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Christopher Grant <[email protected] > 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 <[email protected]> > 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. > Perhaps we could add a front-end proxy check to all connections from previously unknown IPs. If the account isn't on the known proxy users exemption list, then zap the IP... -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
