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

[Andre Engels]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:40:47 +1000, Tim Starling
<t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> Almost all of our bot-driven vandalism and spam comes from open proxies.
> And the same open proxies are often used for email, IRC and IM spam. The
> SORBS list only contains proxies which have been used for email spam, so
> next time you see a complaint, think of all the spam you may have
> received from that person. I'd rather encourage the people who run these
> servers to secure them, and only unblock them as a last resort. It's in
> Wikipedia's interests, as well as the interests of the general Internet
> community.

I don't agree. In my opinion, it is more in Wikipedia's interest to
have contributors for Wikipedia than to have people complain about
email spam.

Andre Engels