On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:40:47 +1000, Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
Almost all of our bot-driven vandalism and spam comes from open proxies. And the same open proxies are often used for email, IRC and IM spam. The SORBS list only contains proxies which have been used for email spam, so next time you see a complaint, think of all the spam you may have received from that person. 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.
I don't agree. In my opinion, it is more in Wikipedia's interest to have contributors for Wikipedia than to have people complain about email spam.
Andre Engels