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VPN vs Thunderbird email
Probably not just thunderbird but any email or similar app. I had Thunderbird running in email mode. I started a VPN to access a newsgroup site that seemed to be blocking me. I made my benign post then noticed that all my email accounts had messages from GMAIL and MS that my email was under attack. Well it was just that Thunderbird was checking my email accounts with a very different IP address. So I am having to go to each account and tell them it was me. Remembering next time to shut off any email app while on the VPN. And now on the radio there are folks pushing Norton VPN etc and what chaos that will cause for email accounts. |
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AIOLI wrote:
Probably not just thunderbird but any email or similar app. I had Thunderbird running in email mode. I started a VPN to access a newsgroup site that seemed to be blocking me. I made my benign post then noticed that all my email accounts had messages from GMAIL and MS that my email was under attack. Well it was just that Thunderbird was checking my email accounts with a very different IP address. So I am having to go to each account and tell them it was me. Remembering next time to shut off any email app while on the VPN. And now on the radio there are folks pushing Norton VPN etc and what chaos that will cause for email accounts. That seems like an awful lot of effort for "a benign post". How about putting your email on one tool, and your USENET NEWS on a second tool ? That might make the control scheme a bit more natural. I separate mine, and I'm not even sending benign posts. Paul |
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The newsgroup said I was connected too long and locked me out. The other newwsgroup I use is down. I did not close Seamonkey. I was monitoring the XP and Win 7 newsgroups. So using the VPN got me a new IP and allowed me to both look and post. |
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On 15 Feb 2019, AIOLI wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: The newsgroup said I was connected too long and locked me out. The other newwsgroup I use is down. Newsgroups, as in "Usenet", do not and cannot lock you out, unless perhaps you're talking about a moderated goup, in which case it's the moderator that's locking you out, not the group itself. |
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Nil wrote:
On 15 Feb 2019, AIOLI wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: The newsgroup said I was connected too long and locked me out. The other newwsgroup I use is down. Newsgroups, as in "Usenet", do not and cannot lock you out, unless perhaps you're talking about a moderated goup, in which case it's the moderator that's locking you out, not the group itself. News *servers* can lock one out by blocking one's IP address from connecting to the server. The previous poster is confusing newsgroups with news *servers*. The previous poster has been violating the Aioe.org news server's terms of use and has had his IP address banned by the Aioe.org news server. REF: AIOE Terms of use https://news.aioe.org/manual/termsofuse/ 1. Access rules * No more that four concurrent connections ... * No persistent connections ... * No more than 600 connections per day ... * No waste of system resources ... Any IP address that exceeds these activity thresholds is banned from the server. |
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VPN vs Thunderbird email
In message , Cartographer
writes: Nil wrote: On 15 Feb 2019, AIOLI wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: The newsgroup said I was connected too long and locked me out. The other newwsgroup I use is down. Newsgroups, as in "Usenet", do not and cannot lock you out, unless perhaps you're talking about a moderated goup, in which case it's the moderator that's locking you out, not the group itself. News *servers* can lock one out by blocking one's IP address from connecting to the server. Yes; you cannot be "connected to" a newsgroup - that has no meaning; it's like trying to measure your height in kilogrammes. The previous poster is confusing newsgroups with news *servers*. The previous poster has been violating the Aioe.org news server's terms of use and has had his IP address banned by the Aioe.org news server. REF: AIOE Terms of use https://news.aioe.org/manual/termsofuse/ 1. Access rules * No more that four concurrent connections ... * No persistent connections That must be the one he broke. ... * No more than 600 connections per day ... * No waste of system resources ... Any IP address that exceeds these activity thresholds is banned from the server. His "The other newwsgroup I use is down" supports the suggestion he's confusing 'groups (of which there are, what - about 100,000?) with servers (maybe 5 or 10 free ones, perhaps a few tens of commercial ones [though the ones offered by those ISPs who still do are often just a front-end to a third-party one]). -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf A. Top-posters. Q. What's the most irritating thing on Usenet? |
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