I'm not on the forums, and don't feel any particular need to join them since I'm not a professional LC developer, but the exclusion of gmail addresses seems extreme. I have been using a gmail address exclusively since they were offered by Google. I would hate to have to create a new email account just to join, and I'm not sure what domain would be acceptable other than my own (which I do not have).
I realize that I have no standing here at all (to use the legal metaphor). I'm just commenting as an observer. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Dec 7, 2012, at 7:37 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > A couple members of our community recently wrote me asking why their IP > address has been banned from the forums at LiveCodeJournal.com, preventing > them from registering. > > We've resolved the issue via email, and they're now able to log in. > > If you've experienced this yourself, please accept my apologies in advance. > I'll provide an explanation on this below, but if you get a notice that > either your IP address or email address prevents you from registering at > LiveCodeJournal.com just drop me a note with the affected info (IP address or > email address you're using) and I'll remove those blocks so you can > successfully register. > > Sorry for the inconvenience, but over time as we remove some of the broader > blocks we had in place when we were setting up this is now affecting > relatively few users. Going forward it should affect ever fewer as we use > more refined blocking measures at the site. > > NOTE: Disposable email addresses are not allowed for accounts at > LiveCodeJournal.com. This includes hotmail.com, excite.com, and even > gmail.com along with many others. This is unfortunate but necessary, since > without that restriction I wouldn't be able to stay on top of the requests > that flood my In Box from spambots. Fortunately, since LiveCodeJournal.com's > audience is largely developers, most of you have your own domains and use > those to maintain your professional correspondences, so this is not likely an > issue for most here. > > Also, it's really helpful if the user name you choose for your > LiveCodeJournal.com account reflects something of your professional online > presence, including something related to your name or business. Account names > like "crackz44993", "JaneHotDate" or "freepills" may be misunderstood as a > spambot. > > The forum is located here, linked to from the Features section at > LiveCodeJournal.com: > <http://livecodejournal.com/forum/> > > Let me also take this opportunity to invite any of you interested in > participating in administering the site or contributing content to just drop > me an email and we'll set you up. LiveCode Journal is a community effort, > open to all LiveCode developers. > > > > Background: > > If you run a server, your log reviews have no doubt made you aware of the > constant attack on such systems. And if you manage a forum, esp. one using > any of the popular forum software like PHPBB, you've seen so many spambot > accounts that it likely impacts your productivity cleaning them up. > > That's what happened with LiveCodeJournal.com. > > Every day the system notifies me of many new accounts, most of which are > obviously bots. In fact, this flood began even before we linked to it from > any public source; spambots are thorough and relentless. > > This activity grew to the point that it was seriously affecting my ability to > stay on top of critical email. As a volunteer effort for the community, the > only way I could keep the forum running without negatively impacting my > business was to block whole IP ranges. > > Yes, I understand that these days the original geographic distribution of IP > addresses is no longer maintained in the same way and doesn't always means > that a given user is from the region of the world you might expect, and this > will result in false positives from time to time. > > Still, weighing the various tradeoffs, it was necessary to allow me to get > back to work. > > In fact, IP range blocking is a fairly common practice for not just forums > but even entire domains among small software shops to prevent expensive > bandwidth abuse from crack sites in parts of the world where law enforcement > has proven themselves completely ineffectual with regard to hacking and > intellectual property violations. > > Now that the forums at LiveCodeJournal.com have been made public, I've gone > through and removed most of the broader blocks I originally had in place, and > the remaining blocks are usually specific enough to minimize the risk of > false positives. > > Still, we do see false positives now and then, so if you're affected please > accept my apologies in advance, and just email me your IP address and I'll > refine that block so you can register. > > Thanks for your understanding on this. I look forward to seeing humans like > you in the forums. :) > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com > Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
