[Foundation-l] Global blocking needs to be halted for now

[mikelifeguard at fastmail.fm]

From: Birgitte SB [mailto:birgitte_sb at yahoo.com] 
>Frankly how to handle these anticipated problems _should_ have been decided
>in concert with the decision to implement of this feature.  I had thought
>they had been.  Obvoiusly the feature was rolled out without addressing the
>concerns that people expressed over this during the intial discussion of
>such a feature.  That should not have happened but here we are.

That's actually false - the discussion regarding global blocking addressed
these concerns explicitly and extensively, as you can well see for yourself:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Global_blocking and
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Global_blocking/Archive_1

Ipblock-exempt and a local whitelist on the IP are both options you are free
to use to help legitimate users caught in global blocks.

Mike