says i have been banned

[Danuda]

I am typing this from my phone since I can't login from my home computer.  It says I have been banned, but I can log in from work and my phone.  Ip address issue maybe?

 

[line6man]

The last guy that was banned was in an IP range that was blocked due to spamming, IIRC.

 

[DangerousR6]

Must be a mistake... :dontknow:

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

The last guy that was banned was in an IP range that was blocked due to spamming, IIRC.

+1

Eric loosened the range on the other guy and he was able to log on.  Does anyone else get the spambot filter where they have to do 2 math problems to log on using their mobile device?

 

[DangerousR6]

The last guy that was banned was in an IP range that was blocked due to spamming, IIRC.

+1

Eric loosened the range on the other guy and he was able to log on.  Does anyone else get the spambot filter where they have to do 2 math problems to log on using their mobile device?

I've got mine bookmarked on my phone, so I don't have to log in. Just tap on the widget,and boom, I'm in...

 

[Cagey]

I never log off. In fact, I go months on end without ever shutting down the machine. Usually when I do, it's because we've lost power so I do an orderly shutdown before I run out of UPS power.

 

[JCizzle]

No issues here, either. I stay logged in all the time.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I never log off on either my mobile or PC, both are bookmarked.  "Logon" was loosely used.  Navigating the site, the spambot filter pops up.

 

[AutoBat]

I do the math problems when I use my mobile, like just now.
I'm still logged in 

 

[line6man]

I never sign out from my phone, except when I'm clearing cookies. I don't recall being asked to do any fancy math, however? Is that a new thing?

 

[Wyliee]

The last guy that was banned was in an IP range that was blocked due to spamming, IIRC.

+1

Eric loosened the range on the other guy and he was able to log on.  Does anyone else get the spambot filter where they have to do 2 math problems to log on using their mobile device?

Both steps have been necessary to manage the spammers and email harvesters.  If you get a ban notice, it is because I've had to block it due to spammers repeatedly using the same subnet.  If you get the math problems, then it is because your domain or IP address subnet has been reported to a blacklist for spamming/harvesting.

I'll check out your IP address range and see if it would be reasonably safe to tweak the settings.

 

[Danuda]

Hopefully you can loosen it up a bit.  I can't I browse the forums at all from my house unless I am on my phone.

 

[leo12.]

I got the Lockout & math re-entry once this year on home computer, really through me a curve ball. Didn't
know what i'd done wrong. You Guys do this on a phone how the hell does that work?
(microscope).
Whats a subnet? What's e-mail harvesting? & it thinks i am a robot. Man have i got a lot to catch up. If i didn't hang out here i wouldn't be able to post a pic.

 

[Updown]

:icon_scratch: ......  Just need to spend more $$$$ at Warmoth  :icon_biggrin:

Problem solved  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

You Guys do this on a phone how the hell does that work?
(microscope).

I'm the rare bird that sees everything up close and needs glasses for seeing far away.

But yes, threw me a curve ball too.  But hey, don't mind so much now I'm not the only one.  A math problem here or there to make spam less frequent, 1st world problem.

 

[Cagey]

I'm the rare bird that sees everything up close and needs glasses for seeing far away.

Myopia is far from rare. It's estimated that roughly 40% of people in the US suffer from some degree of it. In the far east, it's almost universal.

I suffer it myself, to the point where I couldn't even recognize my own mother from 5 feet away without my glasses on. Now that I'm getting older, my near vision (reading, computer monitor distances, etc.) is going as well, so I have to do the bifocal thing. Oddly enough, my very close vision is perfect, to the point where glasses get in my way so I have to look over them for close work.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Maybe rare is an over generalization on my part.  I just know I have to read menus and fine print if my family and coworkers don't have their readers.

 

[Cagey]

That's no surprise. Once you get past about 30 or so, you start to shrink. Get into your 40s, and it's enough that your eye's focal point changes to slightly behind your retina, so you have trouble seeing up close (presbyopia). It gets worse as you get older. That's almost universal among humans, and why nearly everybody needs "reading" glasses as they get older. Some people will joking refer to it as their arms getting shorter, because they get to where they can't hold things far enough away to see them.

People like us who are myopic (near-sighted, or can't see far away) have the opposite problem. Their eyeballs are elongated so the eye's focal point is slightly ahead of the retina. If the problem is slight, aging will actually improve it. But, then you eventually run into the problem of lazy corneas. The range of focus narrows. Then, you can't see up close or far away.

Life's a bitch. And then, you die <grin>

 

[AutoBat]

presbyopia isn't the focal point changing exactly, but the elastic fibers that adjust the focus tiring out and not being able to do the stretch to make the close up adjustment as well as they used to.

 

[line6man]

You Guys do this on a phone how the hell does that work?
(microscope).

I can spend up to four hours a day on my phone. Gotta stay in touch with the internets wherever the hell I am.  :blob7: