Old scenario - people are using mibbit to very easily banevade - crap. Scenario #1 + #2 - the proxy will be banned or the user refused connection. There is no

Old scenario - people are using mibbit to very easily banevade - crap. Scenario #1 + #2 - the proxy will be banned or the user refused connection. There is no distinction because they can trust the code they're running to report the IP correctly. Scenario #3 - "ah crap, you mean I have to reset my router instead of just refreshing mibbit?" From freenode.net/policy.shtml : freenode may block access to users whose IRC clients run on hosts with open proxies, IIS servers or other categories of software determined to present special risk to our server environment.