Incompetent Forum Administration

[GreyBeard]

"Your IP address has been blocked for this session as it appears to be masked. - 2 - 6 - [my.unmasked.ip.address]"

My final post.
What a waste of my time.

[Glen]

Greybeard, there has been a discussion running since 19.01.07 about this.

http://www.dslrusers.com/viewtopic.php?t=23669

It appears your ISP is masking your address. If you really want to discuss how to fix this PM myself or one of the admins, though by your post I doubt you do. We hadn't seen you for 2 years (2005) so we assumed we had seen your final post.

If we don't hear from you we will delete this post as it serves no purpose to know that a member who has not been around since 2005 is not going to post anymore, most would have assumed that

[gstark]

What a waste of my time.

But not a whole lot of time, I expect, given that your last post was recorded here on Sept 21, 2005.

I'm not entirely sure that you have a good platform from which to suggest that I'm incompetent, though: given that apparent prolonged absence from this forum, you may well have missed a large number of changes here, including a continual hardening of the forum code against spammers, hackers, and such.


Nobody in the admin team here claims infallibilty, and where anyone has a problem, I'm sure that most (who have experienced any such problems) would feel that we've addressed them in a timely and professional manner.

It was one of those changes that affected you - refer to the thread that Glen highlighted for the details - and despite the fact that you say it blocked you, you were still able to make a post.

My suspicion is that you were blocked while using Firefox, and IE let you through to make your post. I am still trying to figure out whether that's a bug in Firefox, which seems to more accurately reflect the fact that a proxy has been used, or in IE, which does not.

But none of that changes the simple fact that it would appear that your ISP sends your browsing through a transparent proxy, which is a practice that is mostly regarded as obsolete these days. Certainly, most ISPs no longer do this; it's a hangover from dial-up days, where the proxies were used to cache web pages visited, and then used to speed up apparent web access.

And none of that changes the fact that, as Glen pointed out, we have been discussing this for about a week, and that, in order to fix the problem, it takes me all of a few seconds, once I am politely informed of the IP address in question.

So, let's see, it's a known issue, been under discussion for a week, takes just a few seconds to fix ...

And you come in here, ranting like a bull in a chinashop ... Hmmm ... I'm not so sure I'd be calling others "incompetent" were I in your place right now.

So, what is your real problem? If you can get so upset about something as trivial as this ....

[Geoff]

The angst created by this post is unecessary. The large majority of members know this is a FREE forum and run by an outstanding admin team. There's no need for such negativity which could have been worked out without insult Greybeard.

This thread is now locked.