[Foundation-l] Planned change to default IP blocking behavior

Voice of All jschulz_4587 at msn.com
Wed Oct 18 03:31:50 UTC 2006


Seems fine by me, since it seems to simply check the anon-only for AOL IPs by
default.

One related thing that would  be really nice is no have the autoblocker not
go off for AOL user blocks.


Brion Vibber 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.
> 
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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