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Just worked out how to reply to you. Thanks for thanking me for the little bit I did on the post-fordism article. It was nice to get mail. I'm new to wikipedia but learning quite fast.[[User:Itsmejudith|Itsmejudith]] 21:25, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
== Re: Backslash-apostrophe inserting IPs ==
They are generally caused by some misconfiguration in the proxy in question. Yes, the backslashes are escaped characters, in many different computer languages. A misconfigured proxy is/can be/may be 'open', in the sense of [[WP:OP]], so that basically anyone from anywhere can use it at any time and be untraceable. That causes problems on Wikipedia because it allows vandals to attack and retreat, be untraceable and unblockable. Vast quantities of vandalism enter through open proxies. Thus backslashes => probably compromised (open) proxy => high probability of extensive vandalism => block. To 'fix' it, well, you'd have to fix the proxy, basically, or encourage the editor to find a different route to your wiki. A bot to fix backslashes, I don't know off the top of my head, but a good place to ask would be [[WP:BOTREQ]]. Hope that helps, [[User:Splash|Splash]] - [[User talk:Splash|tk]] 22:07, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
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