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

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