Re: strange problems with some gentoo sites as seen from Russia

On 5/25/26 11:06 PM, Sam James wrote:
> Dale <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> On 5/19/26 5:37 AM, Jaco Kroon wrote:
>> [...]
>> If you don't like VPNs, don't use one.  That is your decision to
>> make.  However, my decision to use one is mine and you shouldn't tell
>> me not use one because you don't like them.  Would you want someone
>> who tried Gentoo but found it to be to difficult to maintain to say no
>> one else should use Gentoo either?  Would that seem fair to you?
>> After all, Gentoo is a bit more work to maintain and some just might
>> think that is to much work.
> Yes, but this thread has discussion of VPNs meaning people have trouble
> and then bother us with it.

I only posted so it would be known this was a problem that affected more 
than one person and more than one country as well.  It was an attempt to 
give additional info, not a request for help or bothering anyone.


>> [...]
>>
>> My biggest problem is websites that block users just because they use
>> a VPN even tho that person, or IP address, has never abused anything.
> OK, but in the context of this discussion, it's actually "people use a
> VPN and it gets banned because someone else is using it to abuse our
> services, and then they are sad when they are banned as a side-effect".
>
> Anyway, VPNs aren't anything special, they're just another ISP you
> pay. Just many of them are even shadier.

So if a person isn't using a VPN and gets banned, that is OK? People, or 
systems, not using a VPN could lead to the same problem.


>> [...]
>>
>> So, I'm using a VPN.  That's settled.  I do my part, and then some, to
>> protect my data.  If others did the same things, maybe ID theft
>> wouldn't be such a problem.  Maybe a whole lot of things wouldn't be
>> such a problem.  But because most people don't, the rest of us have to
>> deal with the solutions to their problems as we already protected
>> ours.
> Sure, but don't make me hear about it ;)

Then ignore the thread???

>> Back to my hole now.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)


Dale

:-)  :-)