[Wikipedia-l] Please let [[special:blockip]] flag AOL proxies

Wed Jul 14 01:54:55 UTC 2004

I use Primus-AOL in Australia. What's all this about proxies? I only
rarely see my connection having two IP addresses (when the Supertunnel
is active).

~User:Mark

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:48:12 +0000, David Gerard
<fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> I understand that, when blocking vandals, blocking addresses
> that are actually AOL proxies is worse-than-useless: the
> vandal isn't blocked, and legit users will be. I have fallen
> afoul of this myself (and emailed apologies to aggrieved
> AOL users after unblocking).
> 
> So, here is a request: something on special:blockip that
> will warn you that you are about to block an AOL proxy (by
> IP number), and possibly even not let you do so.
> 
> Are all the AOL address ranges easily obtainable? (A simple
> query to ARIN, or perhaps emailing and asking AOL?)
> 
> - d.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Wikipedia-l mailing list
> Wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
>