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

[Mark Williamson]

On 04/06/05, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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