I just found on my old mail box (the one I had when I was 5), which I do not check very often, that message from Alno (who is a good french contributor). Send the 6th of november (lucky me, I had not check it for at least 2 weeks);
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Bonjour Anthere,
je me permets de te contacter en priv� car tu es la seule avec qui j'ai ete en contact par mail depuis que je me suis raccroch� au projet Wikipedia sous le pseudo [AlNo].
Il semblerait que mon adresse IP "193.251.11.142" soit bloqu�e, lorsque j'essaie de me connecter a un wiki (en:, fr:...) je tombe a chaque fois sur une page :
---------------------------------------------------------------- Forbidden You don't have permission to access /<ici le nom de la page> on this server.
Apache/1.3.28 Server at fr.wikipedia.org Port 80 -----------------------------------------------------------------
est-ce que tu pourrais me dire si c'est le cas, et qui contacter pour debloquer la situation ? Merci d'avance pour ton aide, bien cordialement,
PS. Une suggestion a faire sur le Bistro : lorsque une IP est bloquee, au lieu de tomber sur cette page assez peu informative, il serait bien que le visiteur soit redirige vers une page non modifiable expliquant la situation...
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I do not know if he still has the pb, but he has not contributed since the 25. I think he got desperate :-(
Could someone check if he is indeed blocked on fr and en ?
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On Friday 07 November 2003 15:14, Anthere wrote:
I do not know if he still has the pb, but he has not contributed since the 25. I think he got desperate :-(
Could someone check if he is indeed blocked on fr and en ?
193.x.x.x is not blocked on either en or fr. Chances are that the person has quit wikipedia after being blocked and not being successfull in reaching anyone.
Best, Sascha Noyes
On Nov 7, 2003, at 12:14, Anthere wrote:
Il semblerait que mon adresse IP "193.251.11.142" soit bloquée, lorsque j'essaie de me connecter a un wiki (en:, fr:...) je tombe a chaque fois sur une page :
Forbidden You don't have permission to access /<ici le nom de la page> on this server.
Not blocked in the wiki, but at the web server. IP addresses that send massive, server-crushing bots to the wiki are routinely blocked this way. That address is not blocked, however blocks are also in place on various specific or less specific user-agent strings (identification which browsers send to the server) for the same reason.
I'll need more information: what browser are they using, do they use a proxy server, does using a different browser fix the problem...
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