IP issues.

[Xabi17]

I post on a forum, and they recently banned me because my IP is the same as someone elses who was previously banned. This has happened in the past, when someone deemed us to be Spam because of a previous user. Could you change my IP address? This has happened twice, it seems a poor system used by you. Any information regarding this? Thanks.

[Reines]

Urm ADSL24 gives static IPs (as in, you keep the same IP the whole length of time you are a customer), what kind of other system do you propose? Surely using dynamic IPs meaning all customers share a pool of IPs is much worse...

[Xabi17]

No, I mean the way spammers etc are identified. It must be a large net rather than a precise harpoon, if you understand my analogy? I am being deemed a spammer because of someone else's actions.

Unless this isn't anything to do with ADSL24

[JamesL]

If they have blocked a whole range, the forum/site owners are not very clever in the slightest. All IPs are static and we do not give out new ones unless there is a VERY good reason. It would be worth telling the site owner that they have blocked you wrongly and get your IP added to a safe list.

[Xabi17]

Apparently:

some of the IP addresses you've posted from are shared with a couple of other forummers - therefore you might have been caught up in an IP ban.

This could possibly apply to two of the seven IP addresses you've posted from.

Further from that, I don't know, I've looked through your post history and (unless the thread has been deleted) there's nothing dodgy at all. From what I've seen of you in the past, there's no reason that anything would be ban-able.

I've posted from about 3 locations. Hmmm. One second, I need to check something.

[gctlincs]

commonly a site will add ranges to a ban filter if they get multiple users connecting from those ranges, this inadvertantly affects others and like james said, usually dropping the owner a line will get yours added to the list of ok ones....

It would be far worse on a dynamic ip range - you;d find yourself blocked from most places at some time, cause it means that someone else is capable of using that address and if that said person connects to IRC and gets the address blacklisted for a trojan or such like, then you'd be rejected from a lot more places.

[Xabi17]

OK I have emailed the administrators telling them of this issue. Thanks for the advice. I shall update this when/if I get a reply :)