Bug#725445: wiki.debian.org: Sometimes blocked with 403 Forbidden, using Tor

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:51:52PM +0200, intrigeri wrote:
>Hi Steve,
>
>Steve McIntyre wrote (09 Oct 2013 16:50:30 GMT) :
>> We have quite a large blacklist of IPs and address ranges for the
>> Debian wiki, set up to block spammers. I'm afraid that it looks like
>> Tor access is collateral damage from that. There's little I can do
>> about this, I'm afraid.
>
>Thanks for the explanation.
>
>Are items on this list ever garbage-collected?

Yes, but at the moment only manually on demand at the moment.

>Given the list, I could easily sort apart currently valid Tor exit
>nodes, and you might want to try removing them, see what happens, and
>add them back one by one if needed? Or do you feel this is too much
>work for you?

I'm OK to give that a go, yes.

I'm intrigued to see how well it works, as my prior experience of most
VPN etc. providers is that they are utter spam havens and unwilling to
do anything to fix that. Let's see...

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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 as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead