Denied
Gmane is a public, open service. However, bandwitdh is money, so if someone is found to abuse the NNTP service, they are denied access to the news server.Actions that may lead to denial include:
- Really excessive downloading of articles. I mean, really.
- Address-harvesting-like behavior. (Selecting many, many groups, reading few articles.)
- Feeding articles onto Usenet.
It takes a lot to trigger a denial. Nobody who uses Gmane with a normal news reader can cause a denial.
Since there is no way to identify users, news readers are denied on a domain/IP basis. So if somebody on a machine close to you downloaded the news spool yesterday, you're likely to be denied today.
Here's a list of current blocked domains/IP ranges:
- 165.242.18.0/24
- usen-221x112x195x234.ap-us01.usen.ad.jp
- *.tky.mesh.ad.jp
- 62.101.161.0/24
- nature.tsukuba.ac.jp
- 140.109.21.59/24
- *.dsl.bcvloh.ameritech.net
- jammed.com
- 217.118.78.0/24
- *.ccom.uminho.pt
- 192.117.150.62/24
- *.cyberec.com
- perotin.silab.ecl.ntt.co.jp
- *.plala.or.jp
- *.chester.ac.uk
- *.osaka.ocn.ne.jp
- *.cable.ubr10.haye.blueyonder.co.uk
- 221.166.216.58/24
- clarion.visp.fr
- *.parelli.com
- *.mal1.adsl.uni2.es
- *.dhcp.nrwl.ca.charter.com
- *.travedsl.de
- *.pool8248.interbusiness.it
- 67.22.70/24
- *.sentechsa.net
- 212.20.195.0/24
- 217.193.159.0/24
- 218.106.169.0/24
- 209.144.237.0/24
- 220.234.156.0/24
- *.202.71.108.static.es2u.com
- *.65.33.65.cfl.res.rr.com
- 74.86.135.173/24
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