On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:21:13 +0200, Elisabeth Bauer elian@djini.de wrote:
Since yesterday the blocklist of SORBS is used on the wikimedia servers to block open proxies.
Are users able to login and then edit if they are behind a SORBS IP?
My guess is that we use SORBS because it is ineffective to play wack-a-mole with IP banning on such offenders because there are so many open proxies. I would think that limiting these addresses to edits by logged in users would be a more cautious position.
It would be unfortunate if we block a user for what he chooses to do outside of wikipedia (for instance running an open proxy on his IP). It is not necessarly true that all hosts listed in orbs are misconfigured, I've seen a few 'first edits' to wikipedia take the form of a warning that wikipedia is misconfigured. :)