For everyone who uses Charon for checking/filtering proxies, you know the program comes with various filters to weed out the proxies you are not intrested in, like the new version has a (planetlab filter).

Recently, i have loved this feature and found it quite helpful. I searched the forum to see if anyone has posted additonal filters, so i made this thread.
Here is a link with a lot of educational proxy ranges if anyone is intrested, and my current filter with additional proxies added. You do not have to use these, there only for people who don't want to waste their time with educational proxies.

I hope i posted in the right forum, sorry if not.

Thanks, but...

The problem with adding unnecessary filter ini files (and line duplication) to Charon is that it slows down the testing process.

Most of the educational proxies and ranges you've included in your twiz_filter, would already be excluded from testing if you're using the original "educational.ini" file.

Most educational proxies hostnames include ".edu", and the original Charon educational.ini excludes hostnames that include .edu.

Hostnames that include ".k12" (indicating a United States school or school district, grades kindergarten through 12th) can simply be eliminated by adding .k12 to the original educational.ini file.

Less is more!

I see your point Lorissa, and thanks for your reply.
The only reason i did all that work, is because i only filter with Charon. I don't test with Charon. Your right, the original educational filter that comes with Charon would get most of them if you resolve the proxies. I don't resolve them. I only see the IP's.

^That's an interesting and predictable reply. Might I suggest that you do resolve proxies as it reveals many otherwise hidden facts ... some of which you should be interested in.

If you don't use Charon to test proxies, what do you use?

Yeah, i told a small fib. I have resolved proxies in the past. Here is my conclusion. Yes the hostname filter for the (".edu"/".k12"/"mil"/"gov") ect, does help a lot and i do use it. I use it after i use the other ones posted above. I thought about this for a while and came to the conclusion that less is more as you suggested in most cases. However i do use the above filters all the time, because i load large lists into charon (10,000 - 20,000 proxies). I then can filter sometimes over 1,000 proxies out even before i resolve them. Saying that, that does save me a lot of time when i do resolve them after i filter them with above lists. I then filter them again after i resolve them, and catch a few more with the hostname filter.

By the way, currently im on a 56k connection, and it sometimes takes 10-20 minutes to resolve a large list of proxies.
I use AAtools 5.80 to check my proxies, as you can see some of my proxy posts inside the "Anonymous Filtered Proxies" Section.

So maybee some might find this useful, if not oh well. I use them constantly.

TwiZted ThoughtZ

AAtols is another program like charon????

Yes it is.