Amir Livne Bar-On (amirlb@bonbon.net) [050519 00:53]:
Around the time Wed May 18 08:41:00 UTC 2005, I was given "User is blocked" on attempt to edit "Software transactional memory", and then "Wikipedia:Sandbox" (to check whether I'm actually blocked) on the English Wikipedia. I use a firewall and a NAT, but that shouldn't affect my wiki browsing. The blocking page requests me to include the sentence "Your IP address is 217.132.73.18" in my requests, so here I do. It is notable that 212.132 doesn't appear in Special:Ipblocklist at this time.
I don't see the IP listed either. That IP is CBL217-132-73-18.bb.netvision.net.il, which looks like an individual cable IP.
I don't see any automatic IP blocks around that time either ...
- d.