From: Birgitte SB [mailto:birgitte_sb@yahoo.com]
Frankly how to handle these anticipated problems
_should_ have been decided
in concert with the decision to implement of this feature. I had thought
they had been. Obvoiusly the feature was rolled out without addressing the
concerns that people expressed over this during the intial discussion of
such a feature. That should not have happened but here we are.
That's actually false - the discussion regarding global blocking addressed
these concerns explicitly and extensively, as you can well see for yourself:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Global_blocking and
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Global_blocking/Archive_1
Ipblock-exempt and a local whitelist on the IP are both options you are free
to use to help legitimate users caught in global blocks.
Mike