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Read me if you can't sign in or post messages

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 12:33 pm
by shawn
If you find you cannot post a message or sign in, your IP address might be listed as a 'bot' in our server. Please use the contact form at EnergyTeachers.org and we will lift the embargo on your address.
Explanation
There are thousands of servers that have been infiltrated by black market organizations, with the purpose of filling forums like this with messages and links about popular or illicit products. To raise their status in search engines, they want to have their link seen by Google and Yahoo and Microsoft in as many forums as possible.
Whenever we're attacked by such a bot, we note the address and ban its associated range, often a set of addresses assigned to a company that hosts servers for other web sites.
Internet addresses can change, because the space is leased for temporary periods. It is possible that an address once used for servers can become one for residences or schools.