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sixtofour on Nov 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask PG: Are there IP blocks?

I was automatically banned awhile ago, after doing something silly (checking all my bookmarks for dead links). The explanation was that the server thought I was DDOSing. It was OK after a week or so. Maybe it'll work out for you too.

noahc on Nov 4, 2011 [–]

I was doing something even more silly and was banned for 48 hours or so.

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