Gregory Maxwell said:
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:30:35 -0500, Evan Prodromou evan@bad.dynu.ca wrote:
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 03:21:13PM +0200, Elisabeth Bauer wrote:
Since yesterday the blocklist of SORBS is used on the wikimedia servers to block open proxies.
SORBS is for email proxies, isn't it?
What's the advantage of blocking open email proxies from using Wikimedia sites?
SORBS also maintains a list of open web proxies.. since web based spamming has become a large issue as well.. (think blogs and wikis)
The FAQ URL that someone cited seems to demonstrate a technique that can be used by a spammer to use an open http proxy to get trusted access to an email server on the same system, bypassing the relay rules and compromising the mail server. This is pretty serious stuff. Web proxies *should not* be open.