[WikiEN-l] Editing with open proxies

[Steve Summit]

Slim Virgin wrote:
> CW had accepted the nom; hadn't mentioned the open proxies; and people
> had started commenting. It's not clear there was time for an e-mail
> correspondence. It was up to CW to sort this out *before* accepting
> the nom.

Is this in the RfA guidelines?  "If you've been using an open
proxy to edit, in violation of WP:NOP, first figure out a
plausible reason for having done so."  Will that be in there now?

This all reminds me of the neverending shenanigans over political
appointments in the U.S., whenever there's a different party
in the executive and legislative branches.  Every time, the
stonewalling party has to figure out a new way to torpedo the
evil other party's appointment, since all the old tricks are
known and circumvented by now.  [[Robert Bork]] lost it over
"adult" video rentals, although the Senate realized in hindsight
that this was too powerful a weapon and hastily passed a special
law making video rental information private.  [[Zoe Baird]] lost
it over an unpaid nanny, and now we all have to fill out a few
new questions on our tax forms about any household helpers we've
employed.