"Timwi" timwi@gmx.net schrieb:

Jens Frank wrote:

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Does it make sense to block these permanently?

At least on en, Proxy Blocker no longer blocks anyone permanently. They are only blocked for 7 days. After that period, the IP is re-assessed when it tries to make its next edit.

This also means that someone who has a dynamic dial-up IP and is blocked by Proxy Blocker, can simply dial in again after securing (or disabling) their proxy, and they will have a different IP that won't be blocked.

Personally, I think this should be reduced to 24 hours, as dynamic IPs can be recycled pretty soon, and Wikipedia is growing enormously in popularity.

I think it would be good to automatically unblock all those 'idefinite' blocks by proxy blocker. I checked, and on de: there are now over 100 indefinitely blocked IPs blocked by Proxy blocker (plus 66 one week blocks by Proxy blocker plus 1 one-day block by a normal sysop, which might well be considered out of balance, by the way)

Andre Engels