On 1/10/06, Chris Jenkinson <chris(a)starglade.org> wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
What about people (like me, but I really
don't care about myself) who
run open proxies on their home computer? They can be permabanned?
You're running an *open* proxy? Open proxies are typically used for DDOS
attack and suchlike. It's a really unwise idea to run an open proxy. I'm
surprised that you haven't already been blacklisted by a number of those
DNS database things.
Chris
Yes, I'm running an open proxy, specifically a proxy which anonymizes
http connections. See
http://tor.eff.org/. It's not useful for DDOS
attacks, really, as the one I run only forwards well-formed port 80
traffic at the same rate as you send it in (and even then, tor is kind
of slow). And the vast majority of blacklists are smart enough not to
list proxies which don't forward SMTP. That said, I use gmail for my
email anyway, so if I am blacklisted I probably wouldn't even know it.
The fact that Wikipedia would block someone's *user account* because
they have at one point run such a proxy makes pretty much zero sense.
Anthony