[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is being filtered by firewall

[jcagle1337]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> 
> On 9/20/07, jcagle1337 <jcagle1337 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> my school blocks at the least 95% of all proxies.  I try and browse
>> through
>> wikipedia and it tells me that it is wikipedia is using a proxy server
>> known
>> as http://privacywant.info.  Is this something that has happened to
>> anyone
>> else before, or is it just particular on mine.
> 
> 
> Not only is that proxy not operated by Wikipedia the English edition
> blocks users at that proxy from editing:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AIpblocklist&ip=64.191.70.133
> 
> If you'd be willing to provide contact information for right
> authorities (probably the IT department) for your school to me
> privately I'd be glad to get someone to contact them and sort this
> out.
> 
> It may actually be that the computer you are using is configured to
> use that proxy. Do you get that message about sites other than
> Wikipedia?
> 
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the computer is my PC, its just on our LAN and i haven't encounted this
problem with any site but wikipedia. 
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