On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:40:47 +1000, Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
I'd rather encourage the people who run these servers to secure them, and only unblock them as a last resort. It's in Wikipedia's interests, as well as the interests of the general Internet community.
Sure, but it's against the interests of our well-meaning contibutors who, for whatever reason, aren't on as secure an ISP. There is great peril in imposing restrictions on some and claiming that it's "for the greater good," as I'd hope history has taught us all.