Re: Debian wiki - 403 Forbidden

Steve McIntyre <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 12:32:03PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I receive a 403 Forbidden error when access the Debian wiki pages (at
>wiki.debian.org). The error message shown in the browser window is:
>
>Forbidden 
>
>	You are not allowed to access this!
>	Output from running curl is:
>
>	$ curl -I https://wiki.debian.org/
>HTTP/1.1 403 FORBIDDEN
>Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:24:35 GMT
>Server: Apache
>Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15552000
>Content-Length: 166
>X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
>Content-Type: text/html
>How can I get access restored?

Checking logs...

It appears your IP address was used in a spammy attempt to create a
user account

2015-09-06 20:14:11 UTC: New account attempt
  username: AdelaHatte
  email:    [email protected]
  host:     XXXXX DELETED

and it was blocked then.

If you'd rather discuss that privately (I'm guessing you would,
considering the hush.com address), reply to [email protected]...
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