Timwi wrote:
Then make them care. Hack something into MediaWiki that allows us to display a pre-set message to non-logged-in users with certain IPs or within certain IP ranges. Use that to encourage users who are forced behind an open proxy to switch provider, implicitly mumbling something about their management. Keep telling the providers that we're actively doing this to their users. When they start losing customers, they will start caring.
In some cases they might, but don't assume a free market exists everywhere. In many cases the *reason* the provider doesn't care is that they have a *monopoly* and customers have no choice about it. Talk to Waerth in Thailand about this problem, he's quite eloquent in explaining it.
--Jimbo