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G'day

Hey Deon, nice to hear from you. Thanks for your message; I'm glad you found my comment about your talk link helpful. By the way, I noticed on your userpage that you go to Monash Uni, you're very young. Did you skip some school or something? Feel free to ignore that question if it's private, I'm just curious. :) As you know, I thought you were a few years older than you are and being at uni early could be why you seem older. Hope alls well with you, Deon, Sarah Ewart (Talk) 10:31, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

You may be notable as a prodigy :) -- Samir धर्म 10:33, 4 September 2006 (UTC) (sorry for eavesdropping, by the way)

Hi Sarah (and Samir :) ). Nah, i'm not sure how that stayed there: i put it there ages ago on the template (for next year), and I thought i removed it.. :P Again: ur comments are useful. I'll be at Monash Clayton next year for a kinda weird experience to do with VCAL and VCE the year after.. I'll be doing 3 days at school (home :) ), 1 day Monash and 1 day at Work.. It's a trial-type thing that Monash Clayton is doing next year, and hopefully it will stay, kind of like an extra year (even though it's only 1 day a week), but that works out to around a term of uni, kind of like a 0th Year :P, to see if thats the course i'm really interested in, and give me time to Change my preference if need be. Thanks for the note. All is well here :), and I hope all's well there. Thanks! --Deon555^talk_Review 11:12, 4 September 2006 (UTC) No worries about the whole 'eavesdropping' thing Samir.. I dont *really* :P have anything to hide, and it creates a kind of community-conversation type which is all friendly and all, and yeh I'll go now :). Have a good 'un. -Deon555^talk_Review

Oh cool, that sounds really interesting. But I personally think you should go with the "child prodigy" story. We could even make you a special Wikipedian Child Prodigy template! :)

Eavesdropping is good, Samir, that's how I found out that certain doctors spoil their nurses with homemade brownies! Sarah Ewart (Talk) 11:24, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeh I'm gonna love it :), and the whole Child Prodigy thing sounds pretty cool ;) *quote* Well _I'm_ notable enought to have a page on Wikipedia.. *quote* some friends i've got :P, :o i hope ur gettin some of those brownies :P --Deon555^talk_Review 23:49, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Mine never turn out this well.

I didn't have time this weekend. I'll wake up early tomorrow and bake some cookies for the nurses. Here's a plateful for the child prodigy. Cheers -- Samir धर्म 02:39, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Lol, I take it your a doctor, perhaps? :P. Oh and thanks for the cookies :) --The Child Prodigy^{query me :)}_Review 23:49, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, Samir is our resident doc. Or one of them, I should probably say. LMAO @ your sig, Deon. I think that's priceless. :D Sarah Ewart (Talk) 19:38, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

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Hey thanks for helping me start out. Btw I do know talk pages exist now :P Now I'm off to add stuff to the "new user log" and any other random thing I happen to feel the need to add to. Ohhh first timestamp type thingy. Liquidman3 05:38, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

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Open proxy question

Hey Deon, I have a question and I thought you might be the man to talk to. Back in January, I read somewhere on Wiki that when someone edits a page and it inserts a whole bunch of backslashes, that it means they are editing from an open proxy and the IP or account should be indef blocked. This is correct, isn't it? Also, do you know if it's written down somewhere? I had a look around the open proxy project pages, but I couldn't find any information about it. Would appreciate the advice of a wise open proxy investigator. :) Cheers Deon, Sarah Ewart (Talk) 19:38, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Hey Sarah, you just got in before my Wikibreak :). Yes, that's definetly true. Here's some references: [1](read the last dot point), [2](first sentence under Feb), [3] (read first sentence), [4] (second paragraph). That should be enough to convince someone ;). But yeah, if you see something like Don'\t or Don\'t, report it to AIV immediately for indef blocking :) HTH.. Send me an email at () (you know what to remove ;) ) if you need anything while I'm away. Bye! :) --Deon555^talk_Review 22:42, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

That's great, thanks Deon. And thank you for your email addy, I've put it in my book. I hope you have a great break and see you when get back. Cheers, Sarah Ewart (Talk) 23:08, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Erm... Deon... not sure how wise advice that is. If an escape character appears, it simply means they are probably editing from a proxy, not necesarily an open one. Badly coded proxies don't work well when POSTDATA contains a single quote, so as in the word don\'t , because they use single quotes to send strings of data. Probably best portscan them first to be sure it's an open proxy before putting it on AIV, because most proxies are closed, so only occasionally will an open one stuff up like that. AIV is full enough as it is. (see here for a list of escape chars) Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 23:01, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

The advice Deon gave me is the same as the instructions given by Kelly Martin on the Administrators Noticeboard back in January. I was only asking Deon about it because I had been discussing the matter with another administrator, wasn't able to find the original messages and wanted to verify it. There really is no need to worry about me bloating AIV. Sarah Ewart (Talk) 09:56, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Ok, sure. I suppose that now you are an administrator you can block them yourself :-) Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 01:57, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

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Hey Deon, I hope you had a good time on the camp. While you were gone I accepted the RfA nomination. And I'm really happy to report that it passed with an amazing final tally of 160/4/1! I wanted to thankyou, even though you didn't get to participate, because you encouraged me to go for it when the nomination first came up. So, thanks Deon for your support and encouragement. I really appreciate it and if there's ever anything I can do to help you out, don't hesitate to give me a shout. Hope to see you back on deck soon. Cheers mate, Sarah Ewart (Talk) 09:56, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Deon. :) It's nice to see you back. Sarah Ewart (Talk) 02:11, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

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You have sent the following message. Could you please inform me about what was the problem and how you solved it?

"Sorry about the <big>, but this thread is all over the place. Your problem has been solved. Thanks --Deon555talkReview 02:06, 2 October 2006 (UTC)" Maakhter 02:27, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Bascially, what I meant was the thread wasn't very orderly, and so I used larger text.

I'm not sure what the problem was, but I just created a redirect, and everything worked out fine :) Let me know if you need anything else.. -Deon555^talk_Review 02:34, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks for the help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevven1 (talk • contribs)

No Worries! --Deon555^talk_Review 02:11, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: St. Joe's vandal

I've seen more and more vandalism coming from the .14 IP recently, and frankly I think it's got to the point where blocking isn't sufficient. I'm looking for a 2O from you, and some names / contacts at the college, because I think it's time its taken to AbRep. I'm a investigator/contactor there, and would be happy to handle the case, and theres definetly sufficient evidence: 14 blocks in ~7 months. So yeah, tell me what you think, and if you think it's a viable option, tell me who I should contact. Thanks Mike, and hopefully, if it's blocked, we can get a soft block + disabled account creation, so legit users aren't effected. Ta, --Deon555^talk_Review 06:52, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

I was wondering when you'd ask this :-), so here is my entire backround knowledge that I have gathered from the whole saga (and I apologise in advance if this is too long)

Ok, ok, from the beginning. I know for a start that the entire range (61.69.12.0 - 61.69.15.255) is registered to the Catholic Education office, Melbourne, the problem area is mainly 61.69.12.11/20, which appears to be the range used by their proxy servers (the ones all the kids edit though...) Also of note is that those same proxy servers are used not only by St Joseph's, but also by a large number of schools in the area (Likely all the schools who use the Catholic Education office for internet, which I understand to be quite a few). At least one of the schools had their administrator request permanent blocking, which I discussed with CSCWEM here after I found myself unable to edit as a result. Contact details for the office can be found in the relevant WHOIS data (in the 'e-mail' field), and as for the abuse report, here is a suggestion to have them see how severe the problem is:

Add up the total number of blocks, and the total time of these blocks, from all the block logs in that range, then include in the e-mail "The abuse has resulted in a total of x blocks spanning y hours, and if the abuse is continued, editing privilege may be permanently withdrawn" - botha are big numbers I'm sure (for convinience) Here are the links:[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

Don't forget to tell me how it goes :D. Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 07:34, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

hi

hello how r u???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.93.21.37 (talk • contribs)

Hi! Not bad, yourself? Also: please remember to always sign your posts, by typing: --~~~~ which automagically transforms into the date and time like this ---> --Deon555^talk_Review 22:52, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Your userpage..

Your userpage is too.. confusing Deon! I havn't seen you in a while, I hope everything is going well with you. --Skywolf ^talk/_contribs 19:36, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Do you mean User:Deon555, or one of the other subpages.. I've kinda let it go a bit lately, but I want to try and get back into editing.. I do remember the fun of it all =]. Everything's going well here. Thanks for dropping by. Deon555 08:46, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

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<Deon> Lol.. it was a joke =] I had to take some time off, and I knew it was inevitable someone would declerk me, sorry you took it
the wrong way.. I didn't mean for any malice to get across heh. See you round. Deon.

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