Walter van Kalken said:
compromising the mail server. This is pretty
serious stuff. Web
proxies *should not* be open.
In your rosy world yes. Now try real world Millions of people are in
countries were their providers do not care about this. Nor will they
care because they do not have to listen to normal people. Thailand is
such a country. Count the rest of SEA and China in there as well. Not
all will be using open proxies though. But fact is as opposed to
Western countries, in most Asian countries you cannot complain to
companies as they'll tell you to shove it. Even western companies like
JW Marriott do the same. They have double roomrate one if your Asian
one if your white. It is common practice here. People complained to JW
Marriott in
Thailand. They told them to shove it. So people threatened lawsuit
against parentcompany than they bowed down. But JWM is foreign owned so
you can threaten with that. Most IP's in this region are not.
All of the above is no reason for Wikipedia to permit compromisable
proxies to post. We'd be just spreading the problem outside Thailand and
into the rest of the net. Believe me, there's nothing rosy about my view,
I'm just determined not to permit bad practises in one or two countries to
degrade the whole internet.