Is there a message that pops up to explain to a person who has his/her IP blocked that they have their IP blocked? I often wonder if I have offended anyone when I can't access wikipedia at all for several hours to sometimes days from home (and then am able to access it from work or school for a while, then nothing - no other sites seem to be affected). Are these outages normal? Is there a problem with me being behind a firewall? Or am I in fact on somebodies sh*t-list? Just wondering..... BTW since everyone else that contributes regularly seems to have admit status now, I was wondering if I could also be given that status - for the times when I catch somebody uploading copyrighted material or when a nasty vandal is having fun in the wee hours in the morning. Cheers!