[Foundation-l] Autoblocking on all wikis now ?!?!?!

[Brion Vibber]

Walter van Kalken wrote:
> On 3 wikis I got today the message
>
> You are autoblocked because your IP is on a list named SORB ..... who
> did that ???? Whose idea was that ???? I got blocked on ia, li and lo
> whose brilliant idea was this. Am I deliberately being chased away on
> all wikis now????

Walter's ISP runs an open web proxy; this means that everybody in the
world can use it as a shield for attacking various web sites (including us).

We're working on making the spam-blocking and vandalism-blocking less
painful, though whapping this lame-brained ISP with a big cluestick
would help too.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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