Talk:Open proxy

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Many IRC servers are now banning users that have IP addresses blacklisted as being behind open proxies. Suggestions on how to avoid this would be of interest and useful. Nbettencourt 21:41, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Hm? What do you mean? That's not relavent to this article, and Wikipedia's not a how-to, it's an encyclopedia. (And besides, it just sounds like you want someone to tell you how to do it.) Dmcdevit·t 21:47, August 31, 2005 (UTC)
Oh, nevermind then. Nbettencourt 22:24, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Is "baud" correct? Isn't that a signaling rate? I assume the author is trying to get accross a throughput, but even then, shouldn't it just say "slow"?Jayhollinger 16:54, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blocking open proxies

Why are open proxies blocked from editing Wikipedia? 128.192.236.54 16:09, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Self-reference

Agree with moving the self reference out of the article proper; I'll put a "meta" reference at the top (with shorter text) in italics. That seems to be the usual style for administrative stuff, and is probably how it should have been handled in the first place. --EngineerScotty 06:51, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

I still don't see the point of that. That's Wikipedia namespace type stuff. A reader doesn't go to our article looking for that, and no encyclopedia puts meta notices about the inner workings of their publication at the top of articles with related topics. What does it accomplish? Dmcdevit·t 07:16, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References (footnotes) mysteriously doubled

Turned out to be a known problem with the Wikipedia software. The short-term fix if this happens again is to Wikipedia:purge the page. Eeera 05:59, 31 August 2006 (UTC)