sighWell, I wanted to post
sigh
Well, I wanted to post a comment on a blog that I knew had a comment system installed, but I didn't see a link for it on the page. Which meant it was a HaloScan commenting system. Even though I can . . . and did . . . get around the block placed on my ability to see Haloscan comments, I found it vaguely annoying since it wasn't even a political comment I was making this time.
While being annoyed, it occurred to me to go to their support site. Now, I'm actually being blocked from accessing that as well, but the same method I use to post gets around that as well. So I got the email address for their support folk and asked about the problem. See, I've always found the folks who run systems a lot more reasonable and rational than those who use them.
The administrator, Jeevan, told me they NEVER do site-wide blocks, hadn't participated in the discussion and hadn't acted for anyone who was in it. Seemed a little annoyed at the suggestion. And, you know, I believe him. I believe he and HaloScan.com have nothing directly to do with this. But the reality is, when I try to connect to their server via HTTP, the connection is refused. Pings work, tracert works. That REALLY limits the possibilities on how it was done. Sadly, I'm not going to be able to get more specific than that.
I got stuff set up so it takes me about a minute an a half to work around the block, so I guess it's not that critical. The really suckful part is, I have to go to the three sites where I complained about it and un-bitch about HaloScan.com specifically. I hate when that happens.
posted by Prometheus 6 at 4/12/2003 02:50:13 PM |
