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against *all* proxies on *all* wikimedia foundation wikis. This would
then have to be enforced by a global IP block list...

On 1/18/09, Christopher Grant <chrisgrantmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> We have bots that do that, grawp still gets through(part of the reason is
> that these proxies need to be blocked globally or else grawp can still abuse
> SUL and TOR to create accounts and make the required 10 edits before he has
> to find an unblocked proxy on enwiki).
> - Chris
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:25 AM, K. Peachey <p858snake at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>> >can continue to use unblocked proxies until we block them all. (
>> >Blocking *all* proxies is nigh on impossible because computers get
>> >comprimised daily... So new "open proxies" are created daily.)
>> Maybe it would if we could hook someone like
>> <http://www.1freeproxy.com/feed/atom/> (rss feed for just proxies) in
>> so that they are automatically blocked, which i believe is Wikipedia's
>> policy anyway.
>>
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