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

[David Gerard]

Tim Starling (t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au) [050330 23:43]:
> Andre Engels wrote:

> > Which I think shows that there is a PROBLEM here. Waerth is
> > complaining, Montaia is asking, but who knows how many contributors
> > and potential contributors are simply giving up, or have no idea where
> > to ask?
 
> 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.


Has anyone had a chance to look at bug 550? It's specifically so that this
sort of block will only hit anon users.


- d.