Site restricting access via Geocoding??

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I am unable to access neither cgef, nor peelified, from Canada. I get presented either with a login dialog, or a 403 Forbidden page. What's up with that?

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So.....how did you post this ?

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Through an American IP address.

[Reply #3 on:]

So? Any site admins or someone who knows wish to reply?

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it's in the middle of the night in europe right now, give it time young grashopper

[Reply #5 on:]

Meh... you're probably not missing out on much.

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PEEL does some "geocoding" during sign-up due to a very bad "benevolent:malign" sign-up ratio coming from certain countries. I'm not even sure you can call it a ratio if one of the two is zero.

Both PEEL and CGEF block traffic from some IP addresses/netblocks based on bad experience in the past. That is however not geo-related. The blocked IPs haven't changed in a long while though.

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But mArc, how can I be here ?

I say let's just blame Books.

Yeah. By the way look out for that guy named BannedTroll.

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Well, FYI, you're blocking my university and my ISP. So, no support whatsoever from me or other affected Futurama fans. Not that I'd want to waste the bandwidth of a site with such a moronic policy, so it's all even in the end.

Please ban/disable/delete my account.

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You're welcome


Would've been more constructive to tell me the IP range in question. Canada is not blocked as a whole just yet.

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Canadians, whine, whine, whine, whine....

not hard to imagine why i want to seceed from these guys now