A bot can do that.. Provided that feed is 100% accurate. If we can't trust the feed we can have a program verify its open and then block. ( dunno how practical it is to verify an open proxy by bot) A bot can simply hardblock for a month and have humans check after that if theft are still open. (most proxies don't remain open long)
On 1/18/09, K. Peachey p858snake@yahoo.com.au wrote:
can continue to use unblocked proxies until we block them all. ( Blocking *all* proxies is nigh on impossible because computers get comprimised daily... So new "open proxies" are created daily.)
Maybe it would if we could hook someone like http://www.1freeproxy.com/feed/atom/ (rss feed for just proxies) in so that they are automatically blocked, which i believe is Wikipedia's policy anyway.
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