MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: So that was what happened...

> > ... not that anyone cares or anything, BUT! I spent the last four months without
> > access to the site because of Mameworld's host blocking me because apparently a lot
> > of people from my general vicinity were trying to hack them or something. Other
> > countries were unblocked but Mexico wasn't and I just figured I had gotten blocked
> > because my ISP does in fact have a lot of stupid spammers in it.
> >
> > But Stiletto took a peek at the Admin email, contacted me, and figured out a way to
> > unblock me. Woo!
> >
> > So what has gone on in the four months I've been gone? Because a lot of crap
> happened
> > down here.
>
> I found strange for various months I always got timeouts on this domain, yet the
> google cache still shows it's still alive and updating. I though it was only the
> server confusing me with a spambot and blocking me based on my location, but then
> this month when I tried again at my parents' house found out I was still blocked.
> Basically you saved me the burden to connect to a VPN, PM the Admin and solve the
> issue too. Thank you.

Apparently you guys got blocked months ago when hackers from all over the place were hammering the firewall. However, the MAMEWorld users affected from Ukraine, Russia, China and Taiwan (or was it Thailand) all spoke up mere days after it happened! I didn't know Mexico was blocked too because there's a level or two of interference between folks like me/Tafoid/Smitdogg and things like the firewall configuration.

So, uh, y'all should've spoke up sooner. :P

But welcome back!

- Stiletto