My apologies

[theGinsue]

I thought about posting this in the Announcements section, but the General Discussion gets more "eyes on".

I owe all of our site members a big apology. As many of you know, earlier tonight if you tried to get onto the site you received a message indicating that your IP address had been banned. To steal from a common phrase used in the breakup of a relationship, "It's not you, it's me."

When trying to block IP addresses used by spammers to access our site today I inadvertently entered an extraneous character that effectively blocked just about EVERY possible IP address. I got careless and found a previously unknown rule for banning IP's that I need to be especially vigilent about in the future. Since this knocked out my access as well, I was unable to fix my mistake.

Thankfully we have a top-notch server admin team (J, jhood and Foxtrot) who saw the problem and were already working it before they could be contacted. My hats off to these gentlemen and a HUGE "THANK YOU: for saving my bacon.

So, if you're reading this post you already know you're membership here on the site is still in good standing and all is well back in Wonkaland. I'll try to be extra careful not to repeat my mistake and thank you all for your patience.

Ginsue

[Graves]

Glad you guys got it squared away! Thanks!!

[brutal]

That Ban Hammer gets too heavy to control sometimes. Stuff happens.

Appreciate all that all you guys do.

[hurley842002]

It's all good brother, it happens. I think I was genuinely more concerned with who I pissed off than anything else lol.

[asmo]

We have all done it.. Beat enough on keyboards and stare at screens long enough and you are guaranteed to mistype something somewhere.

Glad you recognized what happened and it was able to be fixed.

[Irving]

That Ban Hammer gets too heavy to control sometimes. Stuff happens.

Appreciate all that all you guys do.

Weeks when no one gets banned are the weeks his tennis elbow is acting up.

[Great-Kazoo]

Must have missed it.

[zteknik]

To err is human. But you did get the spammers so no worries. With a lot of maintenance you do some things just happen.

[XC700116]

Thanks for fixing it up quickly, and honestly, it got me off my butt and into the loading room to knock out 500 rnds of 45.

[theGinsue]

Haven't had to ban any existing members for some time now - and hope we don't have to for even longer to come. I did deny a new account created by someone today who put "Earth" as their location. His IP traced to Denver. I could have fixed it for him but figured he'll read the rules and try again on his own.

We have all done it.. Beat enough on keyboards and stare at screens long enough and you are guaranteed to mistype something somewhere.

Glad you recognized what happened and it was able to be fixed.

Funny thing is that I was always extra careful and double-checked my work when I was in IT (Sys Admin). Did that stuff for 30 years and seldom made the big errors (could count the time on less than one hand in those 30 years). In May I got a new position as a Network Engineer (anyone seeing the irony here yet?). The job is more requirements stuff than hands-on IT type of stuff. I guess I let loose of my old habits a bit too soon.

Must have missed it.

Huh? I thought you lived on this site? How could you possibly have missed it?