On Monday 04 November 2002 16:31, Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
Perhaps there's a way we can make use of the 'Client-ip' and 'X-forwarded-for' headers which are added by many ISPs' proxies.
If you do that, you'll run afoul of me - I'm running Squid on the laptop, so the client ip is 127.0.0.1.
I think it would be necessary to decide whether the actual IP address seemed to be a shared proxy or not when imposing the ban -- simply matching against these headers whenever they were persent would just make it easier for people with fixed IP addresses to avoid the ban.
My criterion for banning is, if there are 3 vandalisms from an IP address, I check a sample of the IP's contributions. If there are no good-looking edits, I ban.
I suggest that IPs that have been unbanned because they're proxies be put on a list, and if someone tries to ban that IP, he be warned that he's banning a proxy.
phma