On 24/05/2005, at 6:12 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
With $wgEnableSorbs on, anonymous edits and account creations are
checked against the SORBS open proxy server blacklist. A quick
spotcheck
of wikis sporting spam that's been recently complained about has shown
them to be either all or mostly running older versions (1.4.0 or
1.3.x)
that don't include support for this check, and the IP addresses of
these
edits seem to be marked as open proxies by SORBS.
Just for clarity, the syntax is:
$wgEnableSorbs = true;
in your LocalSettings.php file.
An explanation can be found at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/
Proxy_blocking.
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rik