"Anthony DiPierro" wikilegal@inbox.org wrote in message news:71cd4dd90601110429s40cd6cdby363bfb3d01010c9e@mail.gmail.com... On 1/11/06, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
"Anthony DiPierro" wikilegal@inbox.org wrote in message news:71cd4dd90601101110n590dc1c4j45a6d17d6a112da8@mail.gmail.com... On 1/10/06, Chris Jenkinson chris@starglade.org wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
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Yes, I'm running an open proxy, specifically a proxy which anonymizes http connections. See http://tor.eff.org/.
That's not an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_proxy, that's an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Router which is an entirely different
beast.
I suppose you'll excuse my confusion which is based on the fact that Tor exit node IP addresses are regularly blocked as open proxies :).
You're not alone: I came across a certain amount of confusion whilst I was looking those up.
In one place there's a notice that Tor users are not welcome on Wikipedia because of the capacity for anonymous vandalism.
OTOH I also found instructions for Tor users in China to get around the problem accessing Wikipedia from that country.
Strikes me that the latter would be pointless if the former always held true...
HTH HAND