On 04/06/05, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/4/05, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Then make them care. Hack something into MediaWiki that allows us to display a pre-set message to non-logged-in users with certain IPs or within certain IP ranges. Use that to encourage users who are forced behind an open proxy to switch provider, implicitly mumbling something about their management. Keep telling the providers that we're actively doing this to their users. When they start losing customers, they will start caring.
It's pretty arrogant to think that providers will actually lose customers due to this, it's far more likely that we'll lose users and editors.
Even in the case that a customer would be annoyed enough at the provider (rather than us), there are many people who don't have a choice. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l