On 2/19/07, Mark E <mark(a)edwards.org> wrote:
[snip]
college students, business users, and ISP customers,
because of the
actions of one or two people." Uh, ya.
[snip]
A nit, it's not the minor actions of one or two people.. if we don't
block tor exist all the technically competent high-speed vandals will
just use tor. Because these vandals operate at fairly high speed
playing whack-a-mole after they've acted just isn't effective.
(especially with tor because it's quite possible to make every edit
come from a different exit)
I'm a tor user, I run a fairly high traffic non-exit tor node, I've
advocated that we do things to avoid harming tor users and folks who
happen to share an IP with a tor exit.... but the claim that blocking
tor exits isn't important to English Wikipedia (if not all the
wikimedia wikis) is false.