Amir Livne Bar-On (amirlb(a)bonbon.net) [050519 00:53]:
Around the time Wed May 18 08:41:00 UTC 2005, I was
given "User is
blocked" on attempt to edit "Software transactional memory", and then
"Wikipedia:Sandbox" (to check whether I'm actually blocked) on the
English Wikipedia.
I use a firewall and a NAT, but that shouldn't affect my wiki browsing.
The blocking page requests me to include the sentence "Your IP address
is 217.132.73.18" in my requests, so here I do. It is notable that
212.132 doesn't appear in Special:Ipblocklist at this time.
I don't see the IP listed either. That IP is
CBL217-132-73-18.bb.netvision.net.il, which looks like an individual cable
IP.
I don't see any automatic IP blocks around that time either ...
- d.