Sorry this is a duplicate message. I originally posted it with the subject line of the digest that I received. Now, even though it's a separate thread, with the right subject line, maybe somebody will read it (maybe not).

Thanks for all your help and suggestions. It is all very interesting -- I'm still very new to Wikipedia. That is, I've been reading it for a while, but haven't edited much.

Tim Starling, I tried your proposed solution from the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advice_to_Tor_users_in_China, and it works, after a fashion. However, as I noted on that talk page (which I used as a test), it breaks my access to, for example, the mailing list archives. I can't access, for example, http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-October/031345.html. I get the following error message:

Not Found The requested URL /pipermail/wikien-l/2005-October/031345.html was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

What is the IP address 145.97.39.155, anyway? Is that your own proxy server?

Another page I can't access is http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l. But note that, for all of these, I can get them with Tor turned off -- i.e. they're not blocked by the government. So I can just switch back and forth, but it's a bit annoying.