>>>BTW, I re-tried again just in case and got this message in FireFox: "Sorry, myIP here has been banned."
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>>You need to move. There's some nasty hacker/spammer/virus-for-Pulitzer-writer in the vicinity of your IP, and your own machines aren't safe.
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>>I mean, nobody bans a single IP, specially with 99% of the website visitors having dynamic IP numbers. IP numbers are banned by range, i.e. in groups. So it could be someone who's on the same subnet mask at some level (and more than one someone) who behaves nastily and gets the whole neighborhood banned in some places.
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>>I've had a period when I couldn't send emails to UT because my ISP was lax with spammers in my area.
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>See my previous post. It is not the case here. Anyone can ban a specific ID - it's quite easy to do.

I know, but it usually doesn't make sense and I tried to explain why. Also, if your IP is banned, you don't really know if you're banned alone or as a part of a range of banned addresses.