A few months ago the ability was added to limit IP blocks to allow logged-in contributions to continue. This allowed finer-grained blocking of troublemakers on shared IPs (schools, AOL etc).
There's some suggestion to make this the default mode. I wanted to announce this ahead of time since it will change what happens when admins make a block without manually clicking something extra.
If there's no serious objection, we'll go ahead and change this in a few days.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 17/10/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
A few months ago the ability was added to limit IP blocks to allow logged-in contributions to continue. This allowed finer-grained blocking of troublemakers on shared IPs (schools, AOL etc).
There's some suggestion to make this the default mode. I wanted to announce this ahead of time since it will change what happens when admins make a block without manually clicking something extra.
If there's no serious objection, we'll go ahead and change this in a few days.
Will new-user-creation be allowed or blocked by default?
Hi,
Brion Vibber schrieb am 17.10.2006 21:37:
A few months ago the ability was added to limit IP blocks to allow logged-in contributions to continue. This allowed finer-grained blocking of troublemakers on shared IPs (schools, AOL etc).
There's some suggestion to make this the default mode. I wanted to announce this ahead of time since it will change what happens when admins make a block without manually clicking something extra.
If there's no serious objection, we'll go ahead and change this in a few days.
I really support this.
Checking this box is the second most typical mouse click besides deletion of single version of pages... ;)
'Disallow creation of new user accounts' should of course remain ticked by default.
Bye, Tim.
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