Sourceforge site unreachable ?

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> Mike McKinlay wrote:
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> >
> >
> >http://sourceforge.net/ works for me.
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >
> Yup ! I realized, when I used lynx that my system seems to be blocked !
> I don't think it's me personally, probably the whole IP address block
> for my provider. Which really sucks !

Yea, the sf.net team did that due to some severe abuse problems from some
asian IP blocks that never got any response from the admins.  One was
attempting a DoS attack, and another was trying to use the sf.net servers
for spamming.

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