Sunday, June 1, 2008

Ban from accessing Slashdot?!

I was browsing the websites, including Slashdot, when I realised that I'm banned from Slashdot!?

Here's what it says:

...due to script flooding that originated from your network or ip address -- or this IP might have been used to post comments designed to break web browser rendering. Or you crawled us with a rude robot, especially one that doesn't understand RFCs very well.

If you feel that this is unwarranted, feel free to include your IP address (165.21.154.114) in the subject of an email, and we will examine why there is a ban. If you fail to include the IP address (again, in the subject!), then your message will be deleted and ignored. I mean come on, we're good, we're not psychic.

If you think your IP number is different from 165.21.154.114, tell us both.

If you are using a browser with some kind of add-on that crawls or caches pages for you, tell us what it is.

Since you can't read the FAQ because you're banned, here's the relevant portion:

The strange thing is that my IP address should start from 220.XXX.XXX.XXX and not 165 as described. So weird. I did a Google search of the 165 IP address and 'ban' and it seems this address was banned once back in 2005. Here's a pic of the page:


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