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Date:      Sun, 24 Dec 2006 21:04:11 +0800
From:      "Sherry Zhang" <yuleopen@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [ot] can I have an account on your host? (so that I can edit wikipedia)
Message-ID:  <68bfdc900612240504y7a1465e5n607e416087bf5018@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061222103102.15acae4c@localhost>
References:  <1166760000.18971.14.camel@joe.realss.com> <20061222044309.GA16242@lakshmi.susmita.org> <20061222103102.15acae4c@localhost>

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hi,ÕÅí|Îä
imho. maybe you can use https instead if you can stand for the slow
speed. but you'd better not do that for your safety:)
btw, use tor to browse the wikipedia, there are several ways on how to
edit wikipedia inside the great firewall.
the great firewall is great!
Sherry Zhang

On 12/22/06, Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:59:59AM +0800, ????????? wrote:
> > > Hello. I am from China and I'd like to contribute to wikipedia, but
> > > this is not easy / possible because we cannot access wikipedia from
> > > inland (the great firewall) and my usual method accesssing wikipedia
> > > (through ssh -L 80:en.wikipedia.org:80 my_server_in_german) can allow
> > > me to visit wikipedia but do not allow me to edit it ("open proxy,
> > > your host IP address is detected to be belonging to a hosting
> > > company").
> > >
> > > Can I have an account on your host (or maybe not an account, any means
> > > let me access wikipedia from a host that is not in datacenter) so that
> > > I can go on editing wikipedia?
>
> > I think you need tor
>
> Wikipedia doesn't allow edits coming from known Tor exit nodes.
>
> Fabian
> --
> http://www.fabiankeil.de/
>
>
>


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