`  == AOL autoblocks ==  You're being affected by what are known as ``autoblocks``.  Any ``autoblock`` block message you see is not intended for you, but rather for another person who happened to use the same IP address or ISP as you.  Autoblocks are a particularly severe problem for AOL users, due to the way that Wikipedia's software handles blocking and the way that AOL makes all users (vandals and non-vandals alike) share the same set of IP addresses.  Some AOL vandals even intentionally take advantage of this to engage in ``denial of service`` attacks against their fellow AOL users.  Unfortunately, there's nothing that administrators like myself can do about this: it may happen again in the future.  At some point, developers might be able to modify Wikipedia software to prevent this problem or AOL might change their policies to allow Wikipedia to more effectively filter out vandals using AOL, but at the moment there is no solution to this problem.  If by any chance you also have an additional non-AOL Internet account, the autoblocking problem should be much improved.   `