User talk:Padillah

A last short needed look
Please see possible "closing arguments" here,, and consider a final persuasive comment. Cheers. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk)

Greetings and Salutations



 * To Padillah:


 * Hello!


 * Congratulations!


 * You have been included in my first, and possibly only, Very Early Christmas List!


 * As an earnest fellow believer in Santa Claus, and possibly in Our Redeemer Liveth as well, you may wonder how you got on this list.


 * I have no idea!


 * That's my story and I'm sticking to it.


 * Unless I tracked down the connection in our user talk archives, in which case you know who you are!


 * Or not.


 * All the best for you and yours this Christmas 2018 and New Year 2019!


 * – Athaenara jingles all the way 02:42, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Unblock request

 * While it's true I can provide the IP address I currently appear to be using, the ISP we use has a scheme that allows for the outside IP to change as needed. While I currently see 104.129.194.197 in Whatismyip.com that may not hold for too much longer. I believe we are allowed any IP in the following ranges (104.129.194.0/23, 165.225.34.0/23, 160.109.104.0/24, 148.9.24.0/24). This is what prompted the response _I have no earthly idea_, because whatever IP I give may be invalid by the time it's reviewed. Oh well, I tried. Padillah (talk) 12:15, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
 * 104.129.194.197 is part of the zscaler "cloud security" company, and serves as an open proxy. You'll need to disable that if you wish to edit here. Note that doing so may have other consequences. --Yamla (talk) 12:19, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
 * There's no way a multi-billion dollar company is going to disable its IP forwarding rules so I can edit WP. It used to be that only anonymous IPs were blocked like this, not credentialed users. Thanks for trying though. Padillah (talk) 12:23, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
 * WP:IPBE may be available to you, if you can demonstrate exceptional need. --Yamla (talk) 12:36, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Maybe too late, but... you're a computer programmer, surely you can set up a SSH connection to your own modem (or router behind it) from your home ISP and edit through a SOCKS proxy from an IP from your home provider. tgeorgescu (talk) 07:37, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

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