[WikiEN-l] Tor horror stories

Tue Sep 27 14:45:28 UTC 2005

Jimmy Wales wrote:

> I'm talking to some Tor people, trying to explain to them why Tor
> servers are so often blocked from editing wikipedia.  I'd like to
> collect some information (horror stories) about it...

I frequently trip over Tor servers doing CheckUser. It's a favourite
for anon vandals and banned editors (Enviroknot is particularly keen
on them), much like the usual Googlable open proxy lists. If I have
time (insert hollow laugh here) I'll find some that are unbanned and
see what sort of crap comes through them.

- d.