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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 820 |
| | Posted: | | | | I think that the management of this site must take the cake for the most incompetent that I have seen. Beleive it or not, this is the message that I get when I click on a link to connect to their forums (bear in mind that I am in Australia, not some Eastern block country or African locale): "Sorry, we cannot serve up the page you requested! If you are trying to reach the Digital Forum and have arrived at this page, then please read the following. In order to stop an onslaught of spam on the Digital Forum, Digital Home has been forced to deny access to a wide range of IP addresses from outside of North America. Without these bans, Digital Home would be overwhelmed by hundreds of spammers a day from Russia and the former Soviet republics, Germany, India, China, Korea and many countries in Africa. It is likely that you may have been caught in our attempts to stop would be spammers. Are you in North America? If you are in North America and you are being blocked from the Digital Home then please use our Contact form to notify us. Send us your IP address and city your are in and we will ensure that you can access the Digital Forum. Are you outside North America? Unfortunately, if you are outside of North America, there is little we can do to help you. In our research, we have found that over 99% of posts made by members outside of North America were simply spam. The problem was so bad that our volunteer moderators were spending hours a day dealing with the problem manually. Since our site is primarily aimed at Canadians the IP ban is our only method for reducing vast amounts of spam and cannot be lifted. We apologize but hope you understand. Digital Home Canada " |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,372 |
| | Posted: | | | | A bit much blaming all Canadians for one website... isn't it?  |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | You might say it sounds like "returning the favour" to those responsible for the website. Or, alternatively, the pot calling the kettle black...  |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Seems like the UK must have joined North America and I missed the memo |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting lyonsden5: Quote:
A bit much blaming all Canadians for one website... isn't it? Agreed. Beyond that, it is their website. If they want to block traffic, for whatever reason, it is their right. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Funnily I get full access to the forum with my german IP (no proxy used) | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Forget_the_Rest: Quote:
Seems like the UK must have joined North America and I missed the memo The USS Great Britain; the world's biggest Aircraft Carrier  | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Did you click on the Forum link on the left side? When I did, the browser just waits.... |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 |  Posts: 410 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is stupid, im a Canadian and I live in Montreal and that web site is bloking me  It say that im from Germany. Someone f***k it up somewhere for the country setting |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,018 |
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| Registered: October 5, 2007 | | Posts: 12 |
| | Posted: | | | | Why do you have a hard on to get in to Digital Home Canada? If you really wanted to get in to DHC, use a IP masking site. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 1,380 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Telecine: Quote:
(bear in mind that I am in Australia, not some Eastern block country or African locale): That didnt sound nationalistic at all, noooo. Australia just is superior and should get special treatment over other countries. | | | | Last edited: by whispering |
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