[Wikipedia-l] IP blocking

[Brion L. VIBBER]

On lun, 2002-04-01 at 20:03, Daniel Lee Mayer wrote:
> Is there a message that pops up to explain to a person who has his/her IP 
> blocked that they have their IP blocked?

"Your IP has been blocked! Your edits will not be saved. Please contact
a sysop to have the block removed, or try again later."

> I often wonder if I have offended 
> anyone when I can't access wikipedia at all for several hours to sometimes 
> days from home (and then am able to access it from work or school for a 
> while, then nothing - no other sites seem to be affected). Are these outages 
> normal? Is there a problem with me being behind a firewall? Or am I in fact 
> on somebodies sh*t-list? Just wondering..... 

No, if you were blocked you just couldn't edit pages. You could still
access the site.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)