Squidoo banning Indian ISPs

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by COBSolutions, Nov 16, 2008.

  1. #1
    Yes, recently if found the Airtel ISP has been banned from giving access to Squidoo, this happened with me from Delhi, Indians with other ISPs did you experience this, it is surprising as Airtel Broadband is a major ISP throughout India, i think it is quite disgusting that Squidoo cannot have proper spam control features in place and go about banning ISPs, how long will they do it, maybe till they run out of traffic:confused:


    {Oops title says Squiddo, read it as Squidoo}
     
    COBSolutions, Nov 16, 2008 IP
  2. getjimmy

    getjimmy Prominent Member

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    No problem here from Hathway internet, Hyd.
     
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    Shadab Peon

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    Yes. I can't access Squidoo too.
    I'm on Airtel Broadband. (Location : Bhopal)

    This is ridiculous.
     
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    chunnumunnu Active Member

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    i can;t access my own site . disgusting ! everyone enjoying my site and i can;t even see it :(
     
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    aditne Banned

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    Today also I accessed Squidoo. No problems at all.
     
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  6. Bohra

    Bohra Prominent Member

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    are u talking abt http://www.squidoo.com/ its fine here using Sify.. actually i guess they blocked airtel ip range totally
     
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  7. wisdomtool

    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    Can't blame Squidoo, they won't ban a huge lucrative market unless the harm caused is far more than the benefits. Maybe it is time to ask your ISP to clean up its act and ban those who spammed Squidoo so that access can be restored.
     
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  8. Bohra

    Bohra Prominent Member

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    But i think its not fair to ban the whole ip ranges....
     
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    EV-DO Banned

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    I'm using Airtel and I get this message:

     
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    opening all right with the bsnl broadband!
    yep the indian ISP's should do something about it,
     
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  11. COBSolutions

    COBSolutions Well-Known Member

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    Have they gone mad...seriously....i mean what is the market like, airtel has around 16% of Broadband share in India....like millions in traffic daily i suppose

    I suppose they should have better spam protection rather than going around banning ISPs, how long will they do it...they could have just asked the Airtel to get things right...knowing how user friendly airtel isp is...i am sure they would have done something

    I have a BSNL connection too, Squidoo is working fine with them

    Maybe they cant afford to ban BSNL ip range, you know the market is something like 70% of broadband users in India....Let us see whether squidoo has the guts to ban that....i cant believe there are no spammers in BSNL....impossible
     
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  12. Bohra

    Bohra Prominent Member

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    I Doubt they even know that they banned all airtel users.. coz india uses dynamic ips and not static it could be that
     
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  13. COBSolutions

    COBSolutions Well-Known Member

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    No if i am not wrong only BSNL in India is using dynamic ip's, all other major players use static ips, so i doubt this was unknown
     
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  14. Bohra

    Bohra Prominent Member

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    Well not fully static i suppose if u log out and login ur ip changes i guess .. i use sify and my ip changes
     
    Bohra, Nov 16, 2008 IP