On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 07:00:28PM +1200, Rik Wade wrote:
On 24/05/2005, at 6:12 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
With $wgEnableSorbs on, anonymous edits and account creations are checked against the SORBS open proxy server blacklist. A quick spotcheck of wikis sporting spam that's been recently complained about has shown them to be either all or mostly running older versions (1.4.0 or 1.3.x) that don't include support for this check, and the IP addresses of these edits seem to be marked as open proxies by SORBS.
Just for clarity, the syntax is:
$wgEnableSorbs = true;
in your LocalSettings.php file.
An explanation can be found at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proxy_blocking
rik
Thanks, Brion and rik.
I spent a while confused about proxy blocking based on some related, outdated web pages. It seems that there are two different implementations, so I updated the pages at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Proxy_blocker
and
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_Features
please correct me if I got it wrong, and add more background if you can.
Cheers,
Neal McBurnett http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/ Signed and/or sealed mail encouraged. GPG/PGP Keyid: 2C9EBA60