[WikiEN-l] Jeremy Hanson

[George Herbert]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:36 PM, 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.
>


Perhaps we could add a front-end proxy check to all connections from
previously unknown IPs.

If the account isn't on the known proxy users exemption list, then zap the
IP...


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com