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[edit] Hello there

Just a friendly message I was going through the history of the "Police Station" article and I noticed you did something about "donut shops", I'm not going to bore you with the Wiki warning templates and the associated crap. But please do not include things like this as even though it is a bit of a joke and we all like them it is just unhelpful.

Thanks again

Police,Mad,Jack (talk ยท contribs) 15:01, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Contacting

Can the person who places an IP address in abuse reports accept their own complaint? GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 00:42, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

As far as I'm aware yes. The only intention for this is to help centralise the discussion etc so we don't get 10 people contacting the ISP about the same thing and don't get unnecessary duplication of effort. Also it helps to centralise the guides and stuff so that people know what they should and shouldn't do and we don't get people trying to report every minor incident to ISPs or cursing them, both of which is probably likely to result in them ignoring us. Nil Einne (talk) 17:29, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Time Zone (in GMT format)

Many abuse depts require logs with the time zone in GMT format. Wikipedia logs do not display any time zone. Shouldn't this problem be fixed? GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 00:48, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

There's nothing to fix. Wikipedia natively displays time in UTC, and you can set what time zone logs display as through my preferences. Someguy1221 (talk) 00:53, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 00:18, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spam

Pinged at ws8.100ws.com (64.72.112.110) Alpha Red, INC Used (69.142.159.165) as a proxy. Not sure what to do about it... 76.109.174.153 (talk) 05:40, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Please see the Wikiproject on Open Proxies. GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 00:20, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Languages?

Why bother insisting on getting a contactor who communicates in the language universal to an ISPs region, they can translate messages in most cases. GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 00:21, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

That is true for written contact, but some of our contractors do phone calls. Puchiko (Talk-email) 21:13, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Ah-ha, now I see. GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 02:05, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Schools and Universities?

I think the text particularly schools and universities should be removed; it could easily create the appearance that we only accept reports of vandals using school networks, which isn't true at all. GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 00:59, 24 May 2008 (UTC)