Meme

[lnr]

If you and I were alone in a room right now, what would we be doing?

Make it more entertaining though: post anonymously and I'll try and guess who's who. Comments will be screened; I'll unscreen the innocent ones!

(Now post this in your LJ and see what people want to do with you)

EditScreening now turned off, it was bugging me, and no-one seemed to be relying on it to be rude anyway ;-)

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Well, attempting to post anonymously got me this:
Your IP address (removed) is detected as an open proxy (a common source of spam) so comment access is denied. If you do not believe you're accessing the net through an open proxy, please contact your ISP or this site's tech support to help resolve the problem.
which I've never seen before.

Now, your task is to guess what I might have answered. ;-)

[lnr]

*giggle* oh dear.

Um, talking about books and blokes and babies?

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

That would probably be exactly right. :-)

[imc.livejournal.com]

How bizarre. Our internet-facing server certainly isn't and has never been an open proxy, and checking its current IP address (which has been static for several months) in the Multi-RBL checker (http://rbls.org/) shows that it isn't listed as one either.

Since the brief power cut on Monday we don't have any default web routing, so all traffic is going via NTL's Oxford caches, which are also not listed (although they are listed as being in "dynamic IP space" which seems slightly odd).

Before the power cut we were routing via one of NTL's Cambridge caches, and it turns out that this got itself listed as an open HTTP proxy back in April (as far as I can tell, that has been fixed now but it will take a while for the listings to be removed, if they ever are). But that shouldn't be relevant since this thread didn't get started until Tuesday.

[lnr]

*grin* was expecting you to pop up with technical details.

[imc.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't want to disappoint, obviously. :-)