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Someone quite recently, I forget who it was, reminded us all how easy it is for anyone banned from the forum to register again using a proxy such as hidemyass.
As a result, in an attempt to improve security, connection by proxy has been disallowed.
I had not anticipated that our new security measures would inconvenience legitimate members, and I am only guessing that they are the cause of the Blackberry difficulty.
I would appreciate feedback from anyone who has recently experienced problems with accessing the forum (assuming, of course that you have an alternative way of successfully connecting). Perhaps a way can be found to let the good guys in while still blocking the villains.
Blackberrys will always work in a proxy mode, so it would mean access to the forum would be impossible. Can the admin team not simply block IP addresses?
If, as penfold indicates, the Blackberry continues to use its proxy even when connected through wi-fi via your own ISP, without any way of opting out, then we may be snookered, Alistair.
The IP filtering idea sounds appealing and would be great if all the black hat proxy guys used a handful of known IP addresses. However there are just too many and it is impractical to block them all without employing an expensive filtering service that updates its rogue’s gallery daily.
On the other hand, blocking proxies is relatively easy, requiring just a few lines of code, and adds very little burden to our server.
I am getting the same message from my PC at the shop but things are working OK from my laptop at home . Not working Wednesday OK Thursday not working to-day. Very strange, not having a clue what the message means .