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? 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.....
I hope that IP blocking is very rare and confined to the sort of character very unlike yourself, i.e. the type of person who just goes around inserting foul language randomly and the like. You don't do that, I imagine. If you've merely _offended_ someone, that's no excuse for an ip block.
Is the history of ip blocks made public somewhere? I should know, but I don't. :-(
BTW since everyone else that contributes regularly seems to have admit status now, I was wondering if I could also be given that status - for the times when I catch somebody uploading copyrighted material or when a nasty vandal is having fun in the wee hours in the morning.
Yes, what's your wikipedia id? (You can answer me in email and we won't need to bother the list.)
--Jimbo