[Wikipedia-l] IP blocking

[Daniel Lee Mayer]

Is there a message that pops up to explain to a person who has his/her IP 
blocked that they have their IP blocked? I often wonder if I have offended 
anyone when I can't access wikipedia at all for several hours to sometimes 
days from home (and then am able to access it from work or school for a 
while, then nothing - no other sites seem to be affected). Are these outages 
normal? Is there a problem with me being behind a firewall? Or am I in fact 
on somebodies sh*t-list? Just wondering..... 

BTW since everyone else that contributes regularly seems to have admit status 
now, I was wondering if I could also be given that status - for the times 
when I catch somebody uploading copyrighted material or when a nasty vandal 
is having fun in the wee hours in the morning. 

Cheers!