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Originally Posted by Nimrod
...[Orbitz] received a Digiex ban a long time before he received a network ban. He totally attacked my jj2 servers when I use to host them (until myself and Overlord made protection), and for that he has been banned from any resource at Digiex, and that includes the list which we host.
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I'm not going to spend hours finding a new way to ban Orbitz at my router which will allow him to access the list but nothing else, I actually like to protect my resources and won't spend hours of my own time trying to ensure one little kid who doesnt deserve anything can access my list, something that costs ME money to run.
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This does change things. Given this, I have no objections to a continued ban for Orbitz from your network, as you are banning him because of attacks on your servers (which is a different case to banning him explicitly from the listservers). The fact doing so bans him from one of the listservers happens to be a side-effect of this, but I can understand your reasons better now. When it gets down to it, it's your server, and I can understand you taking steps to prevent attacks on your servers. However, you are providing a service to the community, and so you should at least keep people informed.
It would have helped matters if there had been more communication about this - until now I thought that he had been banned only from the listservers, and that he hadn't done anything to warrant an extension (not having seen anything posted either here or in the listserver community on livejournal). Perhaps there needs to be an official listserver news page, that's regularly updated with news of things like this.
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