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

Tue Oct 17 21:32:39 UTC 2006

Hi,

Brion Vibber schrieb am 17.10.2006 21:37:
> 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.

I really support this.

Checking this box is the second most typical mouse click besides 
deletion of single version of pages... ;)

'Disallow creation of new user accounts' should of course remain ticked 
by default.

Bye, Tim.

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