i used to be a football soccer referee watch any top class football match in england and you will see at least two incidents where groups of players converge on the official and abuse him i got quite used to that the trick is to develop a way of handling it which allows you to smile at their ignorance and step back from the 'heat' if a house is on fire do you go into the middle of it how's that for philosophy like i say as long as your own behaviour is impeccable faultless your tormentors' ignorance will be found out by the people that matter you can still choose friends within wikipedia you just have to recognise who the true ones are ip range a single ip address comprises of a series of four numbers spaced by dots to form an internet protocol which looks like this for example a complete ip range for the above would be to for example when a wikipedia ban is applied any user who tries to edit from a computer in the isps range above would find it impossible to open an edit although they could still look at wikipedia good luck chew fat eds