Talk:Open proxy

IRC servers banning IP addresses behind open proxies
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)

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)

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 purge the page. Eeera 05:59, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Is "baud" correct?
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)

Missing: Directions of how to use open proxy
Please add this piece of information, to elevate the level of the article off just lamer common knowledge. Teemu Ruskeepää (talk) 13:18, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Legal warnings
The article contains some citation-needed legal warnings about running an open proxy. Yet what an open proxy does is the same thing as every router your communications go through on the Internet. It just passes along transmissions. So I find myself doubtful. No doubt some big-brother types demand that every communication is traced and tapped and archived for future prosecution, but are the laws there to back them up? Wnt (talk) 04:40, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Different types of proxy servers
Please elaborate on different types of proxy servers and their clear distinction among them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.72.154.234 (talk) 05:38, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

detecting open proxies
It's very difficult to detect modern open proxies. Does anybody knows anything about the WIMIA Test? It seems to be the only test to check for an open proxy, is that correct? Is anything like that used in the wikipedia to prevent the abuse of open proxies? --87.186.72.15 (talk) 22:04, 17 May 2012 (UTC)