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Re: [Semi-OT] Odd ban by Sourceforge

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On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:41:22 +0000, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:

> Yog-sothoth <yss@0.n33dler.net> wrote:
>> This is only tangentially related to Java programming, but it is
>> somewhat urgent. It seems that Sourceforge has banned me from viewing
>> certain parts of projects there. In particular, commit logs ("History"
>> link from code repositories) and tags. Any attempt to view tags or
>> commit logs for any project by me results in a page claiming "something
>> went wrong", even though I didn't do anything wrong (in particular,
>> it's simply point and click, and the links are internal to their web
>> site, so not subject to linkrot beyond their control).
> 
> Assuming a "ban" when some page doesn't work wouldn't be the first
> thought for me...
> 
> I don't have any own projects on sourceforge.net, but I tried some
> project named "nagelfar", (which has no relation to Java at all), and I
> could view the History just fine.
> 
> That could mean either:
>  - Sourceforge had a problem, and they've since fixed it.

I still can't view commit logs. Also, "Sourceforge has a problem" would 
not result in a few specific pages being defaced or otherwise altered in 
behavior, but in the whole site not working. What would selectively 
affect serving just a specific subset of pages whose URLs happen to match 
a particular pattern? A policy change. A random malfunction wouldn't care 
whether the path to the .html file on the filesystem happened to match 
some particular regex or not, and only affect requests for files that 
matched. It would affect all requests.

> - You are using a browser that is too old, or too new, or has
>      itself a bug.  Have you tried using a different one?

I am using Firefox, probably the best supported and most compatible 
browser out there and certainly not one that Sourceforge would fail to 
test with.

>  - You were indeed banned. (In that case I'd be surprised that
>      you can even see anything on sf, so I'd consider this by far the
>      least likely possibility)

I would expect a ban to let me *see* anything, but *do* (change) nothing, 
myself, but stranger things have happened. And again, that only the .html 
files matching a particular regex are affected points to an access policy 
change rather than a malfunction.

> If there is a project that you still cannot see the History of, then
> post its name (and avoid writing another two shiploads of
> conspiracy-drivel).

Now you are just being rude.

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[Semi-OT] Odd ban by Sourceforge Yog-sothoth <yss@0.n33dler.net> - 2015-01-21 00:55 +0000
  Re: [Semi-OT] Odd ban by Sourceforge Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2015-01-21 15:41 +0000
    Re: [Semi-OT] Odd ban by Sourceforge Yog-sothoth <yss@0.n33dler.net> - 2015-01-21 23:05 +0000
      Re: [Semi-OT] Odd ban by Sourceforge Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-01-21 19:14 -0500
        Re: [Semi-OT] Odd ban by Sourceforge Yog-sothoth <yss@0.n33dler.net> - 2015-01-22 00:31 +0000
          Re: [Semi-OT] Odd ban by Sourceforge Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-01-21 19:50 -0500
      Re: [Semi-OT] Odd ban by Sourceforge Brixomatic <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2015-02-01 22:51 +0100
  Re: [Semi-OT] Odd ban by Sourceforge Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2015-01-21 20:08 -0800

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