by Pops » Thu 12 Jul 2012, 11:03:03
You should be able to post now, and don't worry, it wasn't you, your provider etc...
PO uses a proxy server (Cloudflare) to cache the site in different locations, theoretically making the site faster with less spam, the downside is that when you log into the site, your address is masked and replaced with an random address from a small pool of Cloudflare addresses, not sure why but that's the way it works.
Anyway, it turns out the service Cloudflare uses to track IP addresses used by spammers is blacklisting Cloudflare's own addresses, so if when you log on you are assigned one of the random addresses that was at some point randomly assigned to a reported spammer, and then blacklisted, you are then blacklisted as well.
Cloudflare is not going to take care of the spammers it is hosting so the blacklister (spamhaus) is not going to delist CF...
So we turned off CF, hopefully we won't be too much slower, don't think that is possible.
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