Steve Bennett wrote:
On 3/26/06, Ilmari Karonen <nospam(a)vyznev.net>
wrote:
3. If a sufficiently easy way to circumvent the
AOL proxies was found,
would you support rangeblocking the proxies permanently (or until AOL
fixes their proxies to provide XFF headers)? This would force anyone
editing from AOL to bypass the proxies somehow, but would also make
blocking AOL vandals much easier. And what would you consider
"sufficiently easy"?
Dear newbie,
We don't like your ISP. No, that's not true. We hate your ISP.
What's more, you're probably a vandal. If you'd like to contribute to
Wikipedia, please jump through the following hoops. Thank you!
That's one way of putting it, yes. Another way to describe the
situation can be found in the first few paragraphs of
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/XFF_project>.
Personally, I wouldn't support forcing users to install a new browser
just to edit Wikipedia. But if we can tell them that "to edit
Wikipedia, you must first open menu X, select entry Y and uncheck the
checkbox labelled FOO", that might be acceptable.
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Ilmari Karonen