User talk:Aechols

Tut tut tut. That was an old picture however. But Scott was playing on an Xbox, not a PS2. Anyway, welcome to Wikipedia.

Proxy
The use of open proxies to edit Wikipedia is expressly forbidden. You will have to edit through a normal process rather than through open proxies. Layered Technologies has several open proxies on its networks, and we cannot allow use of them.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龍 ) 20:52, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for taking the time to reply to my question. I understand (and support) the reasons for not allowing open proxies, but to the best of my knowledge I'm not running an open proxy. I'm running a proxy for a small number of authenticated users that I know personally. Can you provide an example of a bad edit made through the proxy that I'm not aware of? Or is it just a blanket ban on edits from the whole LT range? (like 72.21.32.0/19) I can deal with not being able to edit from that IP. What I'm really trying to figure out is if there is reason to believe that I really do have an open proxy. --Aechols 21:14, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * It's basically a blanket block for the IP range. This block was put in place because there were abusive usernames coming from a certain IP address which I will not release. It has been discovered that Layered Technologies is essentially a hosting range, and no one should be editting from hosting ranges. I have performed similar blocks on IPs belonging to GoDaddy, SoftLayer, and any other hosting range that I find through requests on abusive usernames or other such IP edits. I would e-mail the unblocking mailing list, as I really do not know what should be done in the case of this specific proxy server being used to edit WP.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龍 ) 21:37, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * You are correct about this being a hosting range; this proxy is being used on a temporary basis to work around some broken hardware elsewhere in the world. As I mentioned previously, the important thing is that I wanted to be sure I was not running an open proxy. I won't pursue the issue further. Thanks for your help. --Aechols 21:51, 25 March 2007 (UTC)