Craigslist problems

[dstig1]

I've been having a lot of trouble with CL for the past month or so. I keep a few searches running in a News reader that runs off the CL RSS feeds. I use Search Tempest in these feeds also to check some of the nearby cities that are close enough for a drive for the "right thing" (I'll explain why I am mentioning this in a minute). Recently I have been getting messages saying "This IP has been automatically blocked" No explanation but an email you can write to if you want to. I send emails to them, but of course no response ever. After a week or two I get randomly unblocked and then all is well...for a while. This time my regained access lasted all of a day. Here is what happened. Someone here posted a couple links to a CL site out of my area. I clicked on the first one OK, but when I hit the second one, it flashed up for a moment and then I got the blocked message again, and now I am out again. So is it related to looking outside the area? Mind you, i am not POSTING anything for sale outside my area, and in fact haven't posted anything for sale for a couple years until a week ago (after the blocking started, and in one of my open windows). I cannot see anything I am doing "wrong" that should light them up, and I have been doing this for years on my previous ISP and my new one (since Aug). Anyone have a clue what is going on and how to stop it? I've done web searches that indicate you must be doing something bad, but for the life of me I can't figure what it would be other than looking at out of region listings. Seems dumb to block someone for that...

Hoping for some clues...

Thanks
Dave

 

[B7510HSD]

Just for giggles you might try and power down your modem few a minute or two then try again that may reset your IP

 

[dstig1]

I know that will fix it temporarily, but based on what I am having happen, they have me targeted for some silly reason and the block would reappear shortly.. Hoping to find out why (or get them to change their criteria...). To reset the IP, I would probably have to call my ISP based on how our system works, and have thought of doing that, but have not done so yet. And I don't want to do that every couple days...

 

[dstig1]

And now I'm back on after one day....:confused2: