Posted by Wet Trousers on July 22, 2003 at 10:34 [212.159.85.34]
In Reply to: Re: Skymouse site posted by I know why........ on July 14, 2003 at 07:13
Try again... my first reply was lost when the Wet Set board had an accident and needed its nappy changed!
When the recent IP address block had to be introduced on the Skymouse Board, it wasn't at my request and I didn't even know about it until I saw the posts about it afterwards. I think I was out of the country at the time. So, I expect that it was, as Skymouse says, simply because someone using the ISP with that address range was abusing the Board and spoiling things for everyone.
On that subject, the block seems to have been on 195.92.67.* so, in fact, only applied to one router used by the ISP, perhaps one quarter of one percent of the people using that ISP and limited to one small geographical area in the UK served by that router. That hardly represents a large number of inconvenienced posters, despite the very large number of complaining posts with that very small IP address range.