[WikiEN-l] Re: can an admin help me? why no action?

Mon Dec 27 12:19:43 UTC 2004

Two things here:

1. Unfair if the user is never informed of they were blocked
2. Unfair if someone else uses an IP address they share. In that case 
the user has CLEARLY not evaded the block.

Care to explain how that system is a good thing?

TBSDY

Skyring wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:53:43 +0000, Theresa Knott
> <theresaknott at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I've unblocked you. It seems as if blocks are not expiring properly. I
>>assume this has something to do with the new media wiki software. Will
>>somebody in the know please fix this. In the meantime will all admins
>>keep an eye on the list of blocked IP's and manually unblock all
>>blocks whose time has expired.
> 
> 
> 24 hours are added on to the sentence each time the same IP address is
> used to access Wikipedia, even innocently.
> 