Dear toolserver user, I have sadly to report an abuse of the toolserver facilities by one of its users, almost certainly Purodha. Yesterday (saturday, march 26th) user Purodha on it.wiki started to do massive interwiki addition without the bot flag, flooding the recent changes log. As it was not the first time that the user was doing bot operations it was promptly blocked by an administrator. Unluckily the administrator forgot to uncheck the option to block the bare IP together with the user, so he blocked the entire toolserver from editing on it.wiki. I have to add that the user page of the bot does not state that it is a bot, nor the user name suggest this fact (actually the username is not used as a bot on other wikipedias). Now several measures have been taken on it.wiki to prevent this kind of problems in the future, whitelisting the toolserver IP, still I have to report the scorrect behaviour of Purodha. I hope to read her/his version of the facts as soon as possible. Best regards, Lorenzo. -- Lorenzo `paulatz' Paulatto Trieste ``Grandissima mi par l'inezia di coloro che vorrebbero che Iddio avesse fatto l'universo più proporzionato alla piccola capacità del lor discorso.'' --Galileo Galilei (Opere VII) -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Vacanza in Grecia: 7 giorni con trattamento all inclusive in albergo 4 stelle a soli 479 Euro Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=6607&d=27-5 _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list Toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l

Tell the admin, how the blocksystem works and why it is nonsense to block a user just because he/she brake one rule in good faith/without notice of the rule.