[WikiEN-l] Re: Anonymous proxies (was Re: Desysop Morwen)

Sun Feb 15 11:05:59 UTC 2004

On 02/14/04  at 11:14 PM, John Robinson <john at freeq.com> said:

> I think if a repressive regime wants to track the Internet writings of 
> people living there, an anonymous web proxy is not going to stop them.

> If I had ever once seen an anonymizer used in such a manner on 
> Wikipedia, I would agree with Erik that it is worth putting up with the 
> extra vandalism.  However, I never have.

But how would one know? Would it be possible, for example, to analyze the
server logs to determine whether there are people making useful edits via
anon proxies? Has this ever been done?

V.