Last modified: 2007-05-18 20:53:28 UTC
Tracking bug for issues relating to the blocking mechanism and related interfaces.
Since I respond to a large number of requests for unblocking at en.wp, I'm quite familiar with this problem: one vandal gets blocked on AOL, and three or four legitimate editors are hit with the ensuing autoblocks. Perhaps it would be wise to have the autoblocker ignore some or all of the main AOL IP ranges, such as 207.200.116.0/23, 195.93.0.0/17, and 64.12.96.0/19. Would save a lot of collateral damage.
This is a *tracking bug* for all the issues; individual issues have their own bugs. The intention of this is to be generic.
We now have a specific component for these issues, so I'm closing this bug in favour of that.