Webmasterworld banned my IP?!

Can't get on WW from my computer!

[Kneek]

Message: Since 3 days I can't get on WebmasterWorld from my own computer anymore! When I go to the homepage, I get a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Test Page, and when I go to a subpage / topic (found by google) I get a Forbidden error.
At first I thought it was a global WebmasterWorld problem, but now I have found out I can still visit WW on a different machine, where I can even log in and post, as you can see.

What could be the problem? I really hope someone will contact me through e-mail and fix the situation, this is very frustrating!

[Brett_Tabke]

you on chello.nl?

Ya, it was banned again - for the 5'th time for spidering. I see no reason to take that ban off any time soon. The bot activity from chello has been relentless.

[Kneek]

Hi Brett,

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I'm on chello.nl. Isn't there any way to just unban my IP, or something like that? Otherwise I can't visit WebmasterWorld at all anymore, and I would really hate to miss WW.. If something is possible, you can contact me at my e-mail address, because I now only receive the replies here in this topic through someone else.

Thanks!

[Brett_Tabke]

We will turn back on access to chello, but it will require login - permanently.

[Kneek]

Finally I can visit WW again... Thanks a lot, Brett!