Dear Travis,
The MetaProject on open proxies is quite active, albeit somewhat backlogged at the moment. We're in the process of developing a database to manage the open proxies that are blocked, which will solve several of the problems with the current system.
Recently blocked open proxies are listed at [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WM:OP/B]; older blocks became too numerous to list manually, so they're categorized at [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_proxies_blocked_on_all_particip...] until the database is ready. (We'll need to have a bot check to make sure nobody added non-open-proxies to that category before importing into the forthcoming database.)
Brion has nothing to do with the MetaProject to my knowledge.
Yours sincerely, Jesse Martin (Meta admin 'Pathoschild')
From: "Travis Derouin" travis@wikihow.com I came across this page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:WikiProject_on_open_proxies
Is this project still active? If so, is there any easy way to import updated versions of this list in an automated fashion? What's the obscure blacklist that was mentioned in this link, can you tell us more about it Brion?
Travis