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Hello Haakon, I was going to supply the usual welcome to Misplaced Pages but I seen from your contributions that you have been an intermittent contributor for more than a year. Somehow you slipped under the radar of the welcoming committee! Or perhaps you are more active in another language.

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greetings

Hi. I am looking for people interested in computing for inviting them in a non-Misplaced Pages (and non-Wikimedia) wiki project. I found you by looking at the history of the KGX article. I had a look at your Misplaced Pages contributions and found them good. I believe my project, which is a wiki about computer science and a wiki about information technology, will be of interest to you. If you want to be considered for invitation in the "core team" of the project, list your name at User:Npc/List. If you ignore this notice, I promise you that I will never send you any more messages. Thank you very much! Npc 23:42, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

This link is not a spam sir.

Dear sir,

This link does not contain spam. It is a very populer site and it has about 500 visitors a day so please let it be added into the winmx page. link: http://www.oldapps.com/winMX.htm

Thank You, admin

Whether the site is popular or not is besides the issue; Misplaced Pages is not a link collection. Please see Misplaced Pages:External links, specifically, the "What should not be linked to" section. Quote: Adding links to one's own page is strongly discouraged. The mass adding of links to any website is also strongly discouraged ... I'm guessing you have some vested interest in oldapps.com, and you have certainly mass-added it to many articles, even when there is no clear interest for old versions of the applications. Finally, the site is pretty loaded with advertisement, which makes your motivation for adding the links even clearer, in my opinion. I am, however, not an admin, and if you disagree with me and the others reverting your adds, please raise the issue at Village Pump or another venue, and refer to any consensus there in your edit summaries if you continue to add the links. Haakon 21:06, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Proxy Server

NEW: From the guy who wrote the cgi-proxy stuff:

Why do you keep deleting my work? Have you actually read the paragraphs? They are informative and add to the entire article. Proxy Drop is NOT even my website, its just the one that I use on occasion and as such the one i feel most comfortable using as an EXAMPLE so people actually know what a CGI proxy is. Can you please stop deleting my entire paragraph every ten seconds? I did not want to have to edit your page but you are really bugging me. It isn't spam, it's an example site. Thank you.

Stop editing Proxy Server page.You've deleted some of the most quality proxy server resources proxyblind, digitalcybersoft and keep some unknown as whatismyproxy page that have nothing to do or have a very little information about proxy except one simple testing. If you chose to editing some page then take a look for quality resources about proxy server and not to preferring page that you like for whatever reason.

Thanks

I'm sorry, I did not mean to discriminate; I removed the other link too now. Misplaced Pages is not a link repository, we link to external resources that may be informative for those who have further interest in the topic. DMOZ has everything else, and we link to the relevant DMOZ entry too. Haakon 15:04, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

You said Quote:"Clean up External links: we link only to places useful for people who have further interest in the topic. DMOZ has everything else.) " One link is still there except Dmoz.If you preferer DMOZ as sources for proxy server (however i disagree with you) then leave only DMOZ. The problem is that DMOZ does have only some links to proxies.DMOZ is simple directory resources. I'm more for option to keep quality resources as it was all time (you suddenly start with deleting everything).For example the link that you forget to delete (Proxy) have some info about working of proxyserver, proxyblind (have a lot usefull infos), digitalcybersoft(have info's with programs too). I would ask you to think again about your move.If you understand how works proxies servers then take a time and look to deleted quality resources and place them back again. We do not need 20 links but 4-5 quality links is more than advisable.Furthermore if you can find there almost anything about proxy.

If you think the DMOZ category for proxy servers have too few links, you should submit links to it. While some of the CGI-style proxy sites may have had information about the workings of proxies, they were not described to have, nor were that their main purpose. The link that remains is for a richly-illustrated article that explains more about how proxies work, and those kinds of articles are what we should link to. People can find concrete proxy services from DMOZ. If we link to such a service, it would be hard to link to just a few, since there are so many, and people will want to add their favorite. Believe me, I've seen how this goes :-) Haakon 16:49, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Your link to DMOZ category is not correct.You link to CGi Proxy and that's are web based proxy. You have client, direct category etc... If you want to keep only DMOZ (it is very unreasonable decision as i told it before.DMOZ do not anymore update of their link category.You should use http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Proxying_and_Filtering/Hosted_Proxy_Services/Free/ instead that is regulary updated) then link to http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Proxying_and_Filtering/Hosted_Proxy_Services/Free/ (but it is outdated) And you really need to keep quality links and not only DMOZ. You did chosed again "richly-illustrated article".That's exactly what i tried to told you.Keep quality links with a lot information that are helpfull to visitor. Look at http://www.digitalcybersoft.com/ There are a lot information, some programs Look at http://www.proxyblind.org/ Pictorial description about proxy server, proxy test, a lot free programs, community

I would like to suggest you to keep 2 quality sites mentioned above.Take a look by both sites and make decision about quality of information that they provide regarding "proxy server".

Thanks, I fixed the DMOZ links so we use Google instead. I found a good and comprehensive tutorial on about.com, so I added a link to that. Proxyblind has pretty terrible HTML, which makes it almost impossible to read any of the tutorials in Firefox. Haakon 13:04, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Nice that you use google.About proxyblind.I do not have any problem to read whole page in firefox (version 1.0.7), opera (version 8.x or IE (6.0)?Everything load smoothly. It is rich resources of everything what have to do with proxy server. http://www.proxyblind.org/tut.shtml or http://www.proxyblind.org or any other page. Are you sure that everything works with your configuration of firefox? Check it twice :)

I checked it again. Both Firefox and Mozilla displays the tutorials themselves within a relatively narrow frame, which you have to scroll both horizontally and vertically in order to see everything. Since the frame is much taller than the visible page, you have to scroll the page in order to scroll the frame -- highly annoying. I was also annoyed by the Javascript msgbox that appeared every time I right-clicked the page. So I tried loading the page in Konqueror. This gives me a 403 Forbidden HTTP error for both http://www.proxyblind.org/tut.shtml and http://www.proxyblind.org, meaning that Konqueror users are excluded from the whole site. All in all, a very inaccessible page, and not a good candidate for external links. Haakon 17:37, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Interesting that i do not have such a problem.Maybe it have something to do with screen resolution form different browser.Right click on the page is blocked.Why do you need right click? If you would to see page code then you can always use view-source.About Konqueror.First time i heard from you right now that such thing exist.Wonder of there are 2% of visitors that use it. Furthermore i couldn't find any .exe file on their page to install it on my computer for testing purpouse.Not very friendly site. About proxyblind they have probably good reason why are right click and some browsers, User-Agent or referers that could be used malicious blocked. And it seems that many visitors does not have such a problems as you. Traffic Rank for proxyblind.org: 98,676

Look to the Alexa for user reviews:

• Alexa ProxyBlind

• Alexa proxy category

Their frames at some tutorials pages sucks but nothing is perfect.

Well I'm sorry, there is no browser on my computer that can display their tutorials in a way that doesn't require substantial work from me for every new line. Accessibility should be a major criterium for external links, and ProxyBlind just fails. Konqueror is no minor browser either; Apple based their Safari web browser on it. And Firefox has over 10% of all users. If screen resolution is the problem, that is certainly no excuse. Haakon 20:10, 27 November 2005 (UTC)