[WikiEN-l] Either the implementation of autoblock or the documentation is faulty

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The "Effects of being blocked" section of the 

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy

page, states that "users can still see all Wikipedia pages",   Which might be interpreted as looking at pages is OK.  Further down in that section however,
it states:

 "There is an internal autoblock expiry time variable, which is set to 24 hours, meaning that when a username is blocked indefinitely, their IP will be automatically unblocked 24 hours after they last accessed a page."

This refers just to the "access" of a page, for an indefinite block.  Now was I blocked "indefinitely" rather than "The duration of the block depends on the expiry time that was entered at the time of the block"?

         -- thanx,
                   Silverback

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> I just accessed the archives for this list, does anyone know it autoblock 
> increments the time for this also? The address is 
> mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/... 
> 
> -- thanx, 
> Silverback 
> 
> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> 
> > The "User is blocked" page that gets returned when I try to edit, states that 
> > reading of pages is allowed. yet each time I read, or even when I just access 
> > the blocked list, the time at which my block expires as shown by the 
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist 
> > 
> > page pushes out the 24 hour expiration, so it is not OK to read, even the 
> > blocklist page the the documentation refers one to. 
> > 
> > -- Silverback 
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