Someone wrote:
I was browsing through some topics in the wikipedia this morning, without problem. This afternoon, I find myself ip-blocked. I have never edited or attempted to edit a page. I don't even have a login for the site.
Then how did you get notified of your supposed IP block? What message did you observe? What is the IP in question? And if you're not going to bother making an account, why bother with the mailing list?
And in general, what is up with the proliferation of "unfairly blocked" messages on the mailing list? They all seem to be from Yahoo addresses as well- throwaway accounts, no doubt, and there is little doubt that *many* of them are not legitimate.