Docjohn -
I've forwarded your message to our tech mailing list.
--- Docjohn grohol@psychcentral.com wrote:
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:29:11 GMT To: Maveric149 maveric149@yahoo.com Subject: Banned IP address or...? From: Docjohn grohol@psychcentral.com
Hi,
It has recently come to our attention that one of our developers was testing a 'bot script that was crawling your site, but not in accordance with your rules. This script has been removed, but our IP remains blocked by your site.
According to your page here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
We can ask that our IP address be restored. The IP I'm requesting to be restored is:
69.93.247.170
Although I do not see our IP on your blocklist, we have been receiving the following error message during the past day or two when trying to access Wikipedia from our computer (using a standard Web browser, so it doesn't have any special user-agent string):
Sorry- we have a problem...
We may be having an intermittent server problem; please wait a few minutes and reload.
Another possibility is that your User-Agent is blocked, which is done to block e-mail harvesting bots used by spammers and some abusive download spiders.
We are extremely sorry for this 'bot's behavior and this will not happen again. Thank you for your assistance. If you're not an appropriate administrator to forward this to, please let me know who might be able to help me, as the help section of Wikipedia is fairly dense.
Yours truly, John Grohol
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