<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the qrplist gang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "Thom R. Lacosta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the qrplist > gang > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, W2AGN wrote: > >> >> W2AGN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the qrplist gang >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> On Friday 29 October 2004 20:20, W2AGN wrote: >>> Latest topic of discussion on some other QSL.NET/QTH.NET lists. It >>> seems the owner of the system has decided to ban CO2KK, Ernie Arcaro >>> (recent QRP ARCI HoF inductee, etc.) from their system, since he is >>> in a "banned country." >>> >>> Haven't seen any comments on QRP-L about it, but they are probably >>> removed by the moderator. I think it throughly sucks, myself. >> >> >> Well, finally got the straight skinny. Al Waller has banned ALL >> 200.XXX.XXX.XX IP addresses because of a "Denial of Service" attack >> originating from an address in South America. This effectively bans >> most of South and Central America, as well as Cuba from QSL.NET. >> Sounds a bit like using a howitzer to kill a bug, but then I'm no >> expert on such things. > > That's usually the last resort type of thing one would do...but it's one > of the easiest ways to stop the DOS attacks. One wonders if he'll ever > get around to putting Ernie's IP block in an allow list. > > If someone can get through to Ernie, feel free to invite him here. kkk > 73 > Thom-k3hrn >
Actually I have spoken with Al about all of this when I got banned due to my IP address sometime during the last year or so. Suffice it to say Al "thinks" he knows ALL ABOUT spam detection. An additional problem when speaking to him is his lack of acknowledgment that someone else may know more/anything about this subject. A final problem is that he spends so much time talking he does not hear you (at all). Kinda like a conversation I had with one of the ARRL staff about BPL recently. 73; Bob w9ya ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Behalf of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Submissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe qrplist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Zerobeat Web Page: http://www.zerobeat.net Brought to you courtesy of TLCHost.net http://www.tlchost.net/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
