Re: IP Blocked in forum.debian.net

[Chris Davies <chris@roaima.co.uk>]

Muntasim Ul Haque <tranjeeshan@inventati.org> wrote:
> While registering in forum.debian.net, I got error message saying my IP 
> has been blocked for spamming.

Are you using a proxy such as squid? I see this message often on
various forums, but all it really means in my case is that the forum
code is reading the X-Forwarded-For header and interpreting my public
email address as from the non-routable 192.168 block. (Such code makes
spoofing them trivial, too. Sigh.)

Chris