At 12:28 PM 12/3/02 -0500, Ed Poor wrote:
I unblocked Helga's IP on November 12th and reported this on the mailing list as follows:
http://www.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-November/007408.html
However, to my regret and consternation, I note that my e-mail was so obscure as to fail to catch anyone's attention.
Having gone back and read that email, I note that this unblocking was in violation of stated policy and decisions--Jimbo had banned Helga for three months. It may be that your reference to a two-month ban that "should have expired" is part of why nobody noticed that you had, in fact, changed the rules unilaterally.
Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
Having gone back and read that email, I note that this unblocking was in violation of stated policy and decisions--Jimbo had banned Helga for three months. It may be that your reference to a two-month ban that "should have expired" is part of why nobody noticed that you had, in fact, changed the rules unilaterally.
Ed informed me before you wrote this that he had made a simple error. He misread "three months" as "two months" in the relevant email and thought he was just doing an administrative task that had been previously ignored.
He didn't mean to "change the rules unilaterally".
--Jimbo
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