Being relatively new here (started in November), this may be a dumb question:
Could it be that most folks in North America with cable or DSL internet do not have a fixed IP address?
Unless I'm mistaken, customers with Rogers Communications cable broadband in Toronto are randomly assigned IP addresses in the range from 66.185.80.0 to 66.185.95.255 every time they log off and re-log in to the system.
Could it be possible that this is the case here? The person may be using a temporary IP address that once belonged to a vandal or troll. And the new IP address for each power-up and reconnect to the NET could account for this user's seemingly sporadic nature of the ban.
Or am I totally off base?
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[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Magnus Manske
I found this in my inbox today:
I'm a user who has the number 66.185.84.208. I've found myself blocked on the accusation of vandalism and plagarism. Can you please unblock me? Please note that this is the 4th time in 5 months and I hope this is the last time.
I quickly scanned through his contributions, and there are quite a few. Some of his new articles had a leftist bias, and he seems to be pro-Palestine, but I didn't see real vandalism. Some of his edits might be a little weird, though.
But, if he was really banned 4 times already, I probably missed something.
Magnus