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Originally Posted by IanUK
I knew Paul M the proxy savour would come along
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Proxy saviour, I don't think so, but someone has to answer your posts.
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Originally Posted by IanUK
but don't try and pretend that the proxies are a good thing, because they are not, without them web browsing would be far less hassle
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I don't pretend they are a good thing, I would be more than happy to see them gone forever - but I don't spend all day trying to pretend they are the root of all evil when they are not - 98% of the time they don't cause any problems (yes made up
but I bet it's in the high 90's).
Just like everything else, you are not going to get a 100% problem free system but I see many things blamed on them in the forums that clearly aren't an ntl proxy problem (hotmail the other day was an example). Sites that block them due to heavy usage are not an ntl proxy fault.
Of course they do fail, and when they do it affects a lot of people, and is very annoying, and they also cause occasional problems due to not refreshing properly, and the fact that many (dumb) end systems see them as one ip is also a drawback - but the simple fact is that for the forseeable future we are stuck with them, and constant moaning about it in topic after topic is not going to change this. Accept them for what they are and try to work round the problems.
Chrysalis - an excellent idea, but almost certainly very difficult to do in practice.