[WikiEN-l] Jeremy Hanson

Christopher Grant chrisgrantmail at gmail.com
Mon Jan 19 02:36:37 UTC 2009


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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