??? Why am I constantly being banned ???

[Commercial Air Services]

Hi AM

I am only able to post here now because I am posting from someone else’s PC. For the third time since my joining my IP address has been banned by the forums anti virus/ security thing. In the past this occurred whenever I posted using too many hyperlinks in a certain topic. I then sent an email to Stephen from AM and was unblocked although without response. Now yet again I was blocked out right from the start only browsing through topics. I thought I'd rather work through the forum this time albeit from some other PC, I've been blocked now again for a few days.

What in the world am I doing wrong? Surely I cannot pose that much of a threat to the security and stability of the forum by doing what it was designed for, reading posts and posting myself? Help would be much appreciated.

[Commercial Air Services]

Thank you for unblocking me again. However the question still begs what am I doing wrong to cause for it in the first place? It would be much more convenient not to have to go through a whole process of getting someones attention in order to be unblocked every so often.

[StephenM]

The problem lies with the hosting provider. We do not directly block you from the forums. I have in previous cases reported to them when users get banned but for a variety of reasons they may or may not urban an IP address or range. The situation is a little difficult to maintain. I have often debated just moving the forums to one of the AM servers but we benefit when things go wrong from having them here. I will notify the host of your repeated issues, Matias (one of our staff) also suffers from problems here too.

[Commercial Air Services]

Thank you Stephen, I understand. I'm sure there are many others that do not even bother to report being blocked. Good luck getting any meaningful response out of the hosting provider

[Commercial Air Services]

Was banned again for the past two days, unbanned today. No need to reply Stephen I'm just posting for records sake.

[StephenM]

If you could send me a copy of the error message next time you see it that would be helpful. You can email it to  thanks.

[Commercial Air Services]

Will do.

[1993matias]

I'm still banned And it's not the first time. My temporary solution is to use a proxy (send data via a third party server, thus hiding your IP), but it is so damn slow!

[Commercial Air Services]

Well... I wouldn't even know where to start with that, luckily there is a PC I can use right next door, albeit under the guise of having a faulty internet connection

[StephenM]

I'm still banned And it's not the first time. My temporary solution is to use a proxy (send data via a third party server, thus hiding your IP), but it is so damn slow!

The host is waiting for more details, which we don't have much of. They claim the IP I provided (Matias') is not blocked.

[Commercial Air Services]

Stephen the minute I get blocked again I'll send you the error message & the IP.

[Commercial Air Services]

It just dawned on me that I still have the error message in the email that I sent to your direct email. It contains a copy paste of the entire error message, my IP & of course the date of the email is the day that I was blocked.

I just forwarded it to the staff email you provided, hope it helps.

[StephenM]

My direct email is fine. I try not to use actual email addresses as text on forums etc to try and reduce the amount of spam we get.

[Commercial Air Services]

Of course My apologies. I edited them out of the post to avoid that then.