September 4, 200421 yr Replied to your email Schultz - you're not banned and the IP you listed doesn't exist in their database... - dunno what is causing it.
September 4, 200421 yr Author Replied to your email Schultz - you're not banned and the IP you listed doesn't exist in their database... - dunno what is causing it. ok thanks. i copied/pasted details of this thread and emailed it to various FA Team members and sierra since admin emails unanswered for week now. might wake someone up email pasted below :? The following is a paste from public forum where many play and discuss sierra games like half-life-firearms. It relates to discovered fact that admin of http://www.forums.firearmsmod.com has placed ip ban that includes all 4 octets of ip address which upon questioning people publicly in other net forums found out many other Canadians in Ontario, Canada get ip ban message when just trying to read said forums. Do you agree it's in your interests too, to contact said admin or owners, advising that someone goofed with ip ban causing thousands of Canadians on "Rogers Inc" "Shaw Internet" to be unable to read about Firearms at their forums, thus if thinking about buying Half-Life to play FA, may not. Others have suggested this is an anti-Canadian thing since it effects only Canadian internet users . They should only ban based on complete ip match but is blocking those with just 1st 2 pairs same. Icopoli wrote: curious, do you guys use shaw? If so, I probably got you banned. They banned 2 octets of my IP that I know of, friend has same first 2 octets, and different last 2, hes banned there too ^-^ Go me! Jawhol (yes sir) !! My 2 pcs here for me and Tigerhawk and Klinks other end of city, use Shaw. That is totally rediculous of them. If they banned by 1st 2 of 4 octets I'm guessing that would include most central Canada Shaw customers. The admin that did this needs a slap in my opinion. For privacy reasons I'm starrring the last 2 ... 24.78.**.*** . Both pcs here have same 1st 2 pairs.
September 4, 200421 yr Author Replied to your email Schultz - you're not banned and the IP you listed doesn't exist in their database... - dunno what is causing it. ok thanks. i copied/pasted details of this thread and emailed it to various FA Team members and sierra since admin emails unanswered for week now. might wake someone up email pasted below :? The following is a paste from public forum where many play and discuss sierra games like half-life-firearms. It relates to discovered fact that admin of http://www.forums.firearmsmod.com has placed ip ban that includes all 4 octets of ip address which upon questioning people publicly in other net forums found out many other Canadians in Ontario, Canada get ip ban message when just trying to read said forums. Do you agree it's in your interests too, to contact said admin or owners, advising that someone goofed with ip ban causing thousands of Canadians on "Rogers Inc" "Shaw Internet" to be unable to read about Firearms at their forums, thus if thinking about buying Half-Life to play FA, may not. Others have suggested this is an anti-Canadian thing since it effects only Canadian internet users . They should only ban based on complete ip match but is blocking those with just 1st 2 pairs same. Icopoli wrote: curious, do you guys use shaw? If so, I probably got you banned. They banned 2 octets of my IP that I know of, friend has same first 2 octets, and different last 2, hes banned there too ^-^ Go me! Jawhol (yes sir) !! My 2 pcs here for me and Tigerhawk and Klinks other end of city, use Shaw. That is totally rediculous of them. If they banned by 1st 2 of 4 octets I'm guessing that would include most central Canada Shaw customers. The admin that did this needs a slap in my opinion. For privacy reasons I'm starrring the last 2 ... 24.78.**.*** . Both pcs here have same 1st 2 pairs.
September 4, 200421 yr rofl thatll teach you for being canadian there Shultz, i was chatting with TimRice he couldnt understand it either, hence what i told you the other night.
September 4, 200421 yr rofl thatll teach you for being canadian there Shultz, i was chatting with TimRice he couldnt understand it either, hence what i told you the other night.
September 4, 200421 yr Author rofl thatll teach you for being canadian there Shultz, i was chatting with TimRice he couldnt understand it either, hence what i told you the other night. roger that. i'm guessing the admin applied ban to "any" matching octets instead of "all" in ip. unless they got hacked same as following post about hl2 forum news from your home page : Ugh Earlier I post about Half-Life 2 going gold on Monday. Well, it was all a fake apparently. Half-Life 2 Fools Gold MikeJ @ 10:20 pm pdt - half-life, hl2 & tf2 - important - 94 comments - hot topic HL2 Fallout's Mr Bond has cleared up the mystery behind a recent post made by Gabe Newell's forum account claiming that Half-Life 2 will be going gold Monday. Since HL2 Fallout is having server issues, we have mirrored the news post: After a close scrutiny of Gabe Newell's account history on the forums, we've come to the conclusion that the gold post is a fake. While we can't be 100% certain at this stage, all indicators point towards someone hacking the forum account. That said, all Gabe's previous posts on these forums are quite legitimate. We apologize for the confusion and will be investigating further. Theoretically, an IPB forum account should be very difficult to hack. Well, that was the theory at least. We'll keep you updated.
September 4, 200421 yr Author rofl thatll teach you for being canadian there Shultz, i was chatting with TimRice he couldnt understand it either, hence what i told you the other night. roger that. i'm guessing the admin applied ban to "any" matching octets instead of "all" in ip. unless they got hacked same as following post about hl2 forum news from your home page : Ugh Earlier I post about Half-Life 2 going gold on Monday. Well, it was all a fake apparently. Half-Life 2 Fools Gold MikeJ @ 10:20 pm pdt - half-life, hl2 & tf2 - important - 94 comments - hot topic HL2 Fallout's Mr Bond has cleared up the mystery behind a recent post made by Gabe Newell's forum account claiming that Half-Life 2 will be going gold Monday. Since HL2 Fallout is having server issues, we have mirrored the news post: After a close scrutiny of Gabe Newell's account history on the forums, we've come to the conclusion that the gold post is a fake. While we can't be 100% certain at this stage, all indicators point towards someone hacking the forum account. That said, all Gabe's previous posts on these forums are quite legitimate. We apologize for the confusion and will be investigating further. Theoretically, an IPB forum account should be very difficult to hack. Well, that was the theory at least. We'll keep you updated.
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