Please change the message that blocked SORBS-IPs see on all wikis. I encountered it once myself, when I was in Houston behind a local ISP; I don't remember its exact wording, but it was distinctly offensive. (Is it a MediaWiki namespace message?)

This message should apologize for the inconvenience, and assume in good faith that it is speaking to a good user trapped behind a bad proxy. * offer them a form to submit to request an account. * don't tell them that 'they might be a vandal'...

To reduce the workload produced by the above form, you could also * provide a mechanism for users to create /their own/ account if they already have a known (and not day-old) account on some other Wikimedia project. * Ask users to do this before offering them the form

--SJ

On 7/1/05, Walter van Kalken walter@vankalken.net wrote:

Your IP address is listed as an open proxy in the [http://www.sorbs.net SORBS] DNSBL. You cannot create an account

It is nice that I cannot create accounts anymore ...... it is neat that I am considered a vandal. Can we please stop the nonsense it becomes extremely irritating.

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