Actually I'm writing this because I run a channel which focuses on privacy (basically). People in this room usually don't want people to see their IP's and are already running proxies, but proxies are unpredictable and can go down at any time. I run this so people in the channel may get proxies for their browser/IRC. I prefer them working with both so I don't have 1 list of browsers and one list of IRC's, because most don't work with IRC. This script would allow me to just feed it a list (from a proxy website for example) and see if they work. Some people may abuse this list but it isn't why I'm putting it there.