[Wikipedia-l] Re: URGENT: blocking open proxies

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 6/4/05, Timwi <timwi at gmx.net> wrote:
> Then make them care. Hack something into MediaWiki that allows us to
> display a pre-set message to non-logged-in users with certain IPs or
> within certain IP ranges. Use that to encourage users who are forced
> behind an open proxy to switch provider, implicitly mumbling something
> about their management. Keep telling the providers that we're actively
> doing this to their users. When they start losing customers, they will
> start caring.

It's pretty arrogant to think that providers will actually lose
customers due to this, it's far more likely that we'll lose users and
editors.

Even in the case that a customer would be annoyed enough at the
provider (rather than us), there are many people who don't have a
choice.