[Coco] country blocked

[Roger Taylor]

At 06:07 AM 7/15/2009, you wrote:
>Why would the Russians be interested in trying to shut down a 
>website about an obsolete 8 bit system like the CoCo?

I think the point is that countries and "bots" are doing this to each 
other, in the thousands daily, not just to a CoCo site.




>----- Original Message ----- From: "Fedor Steeman" <petrander at gmail.com>
>To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:46 AM
>Subject: Re: [Coco] country blocked
>
>
>>I doubt there are any CoCo-nuts in Russia. There are only a few of us in
>>Western Europe even, so I think you can block Russia without much worries.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Fedor
>>
>>2009/7/13 Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com>
>>
>>>If someone among us lives in Russia, could they please try to access
>>>coco3.com to see if it blocks you?  I've been blasted by Russian attacks
>>>all day long and while I work on a better human-signup process, I've had to
>>>block the entire country of Russia.  No offense to any one person or the
>>>country itself, but I see no other way right now to drastically reduce the
>>>chances of porn or spam being flooded into the forums while I'm asleep or at
>>>work.
>>>
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