On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:11 PM, FT2 <[email protected]> wrote: > Concur with tightening TorBlock. if we can clamp down on open proxies > identified by other feeds and listing sites, I'd be fine with that as well.
I'm doing some active work with the folks from Project Honeypot. Currently I have some stuff ready to deploy, just want a go-ahead from other sysadmins first, though. > (Adding some side information: experience on enwiki suggests that IP block > exemption works effectively; we have had a reassonable number of requests, > and because each account needs IPBE individually, even if a problem user > does apply for IPBE and is granted it, it doesn't "break the bank"; it's > still hard to set up a nest of socks that way.) Per-request IP block exemption works fine for vested contributors, but not so well for new users, who, when seeing that they need to give up their first-borns, go away and do something else. We're obviously losing valuable contributors to this procedural hurdle. -- Andrew Garrett Sent from Sydney, Nsw, Australia _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
