On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:40:47 +1000, Tim Starling
<t.starling(a)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