[Wikipedia-l] Planned change to default IP blocking behavior

Tue Oct 17 19:38:57 UTC 2006

On 17/10/06, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> A few months ago the ability was added to limit IP blocks to allow
> logged-in contributions to continue. This allowed finer-grained blocking
> of troublemakers on shared IPs (schools, AOL etc).
>
> There's some suggestion to make this the default mode. I wanted to
> announce this ahead of time since it will change what happens when
> admins make a block without manually clicking something extra.
>
> If there's no serious objection, we'll go ahead and change this in a few
> days.

Will new-user-creation be allowed or blocked by default?

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