Hi all

I'm from belgium (searchcountry) and i'm an active member (was).
but they don't allow the use of proxies anymore

You must know 95% of belgium's internet connections is cable or adsl (isdn) both are proxies!

If i want a static ip I need to get a business internet connection (+500?/month)
If i can pay that i don't need to click paid ads...

To me it's like a scam, if been working for over a year (doing searches..) and now they just exclude me

And my most important Q is...
Will other gptr follow?

Hyia,

I am from Belgium too and am on dynamic IP too but have no problem at Mikes, their tool detect the anonymous proxies and refuse them, not the ones from recognised providers utilising dynamic IPs.
It doesn't work like some search engines where the webmaster refuses all proxies without making a difference between anonymous ones and others normal ones !

If you go to your account and can click, you should be fine, no problem ..well, is what Trayse told me so I guess it's valid

This tool helps you find out if you are ok : http://www.countrycheck.com/detectproxy.aspx
If like me you see this :

Hope Not !!!

I'm also on cable and i can't switch to static ips coz i only have one phone line.

Forgot to mention, this tool http://www.countrycheck.com/detectproxy.aspx works for all countries, not just Belgium

Sophie

Thanks Sophieca

yup ... what sophie said. transparent proxies are fine. only anon proxies will be blocked. also, in the near future, you can expect alot of other programs to institute the same type of protection.

Email Matters sent out an email this week and they are not allowing anon proxies either .

I am from the netherlands and have a static IP with versatel/KPN (ADSL). Does the problems in Belgium come from Belgacom?

Uhoh, yes I do use Telenet and have had my thing checked a lot of times ... never had a problem but with the ones confusing anonymous proxies and other proxies.

Sorry, I can't help you more because it makes no sense to me, you might ask in telenet's forums, they always helped me a lot there ...

I will try to send a few more techie ones to this thread if I can find them

Sophie

AH !

Seems someone should control some scripts here

Have it too Bruffy :

OK, for Telenet users:

Go in your IExplorer settings (Internet-opties), click connections (verbindingen), then click LAN-settings (LAN-instellingen), then CHECK 'use automatic ... script'
(vakje voor 'automatisch configuratiescript gebruiken' aanklikken),

and then add in the open space: 'http://pac.telenet.be:8080'.

Please inform me if it is not working. I spoke to a Telenet technician two days ago, who was setting my internet cable connection (which will be working only on Monday for me, it all goes well) and he told me it should work fine this way.

I am able to access Mikes site without problems right now, although I am still using Tiscali, and I got sometimes blocked by some search engines as Tiscali IS using a transparent proxy. That's one of the reasons why I am changing ISP now (and also because of the lousy customer service).

Hyia Anneonline,

Thanks for your help but it has been like that since forever in my settings

Sophie

But I do have an other problem with Mikes still:

I had to change my email addy, because I could not receive his 'paid and non-paid ads' emails anymore (I DID receive the search and admin emails though!!).
I used Hotmail first, so I thought that might be the problem.

Now I have changed my addy to one of another company, and now I discover that I am still not getting all the emails. I do get searches, admin, advertising specials, 5cent emails, but not the emails that are now called 'Paid mailings'.....

Weird.... S-)

thanks for letting me know, ladies. i'm on top of it and will get back to you asap.

Hyia,

I talked to the scriptwiter and now I understand what happened

As we have a dynamic IP, every time we open internet, we have a different IP, one of those IPs we use and coming from our provider was flagged as using some bad proxies on the 8th of december.

Bruffy must have surfed using that IP and was then told he couldn't use Mikes because the IP was flagged ... I didn't have any problem until I used that same IP, or another one being flagged then BANG, flagged too .....

Those IPs are checked regularly and scriptwirter told me he would make the check more often as the IP I used and which was flagged was not reported as bad anymore, so it has been changed and I can surf Mikes again.

Bruffy, if you still can't use Mike and think the same happened to both of us but maybe with a different IP, you should PM your username to Trayse who then can double check the IP that caused the blocking with the webmaster of the checking - tool.

The message blocking you at Mikes says this :

Hi Everybody,

Ok so, I rechecked all your guy's IP addresses, and none of them are showing up as Anonymous Proxies anymore - they're all updated to say Belgium. So your clicking should continue uninterrupted.

It's possible that for a short time, your ISP had one of their proxies configured to show up as an Anonymous Proxy, and so it got flagged that way in the system..

The other thing is that my script caches IP addresses for a time period determined by the webmaster (that is, it saves results for an amount of time the PO chooses). Once that time period is elapsed, the result is deleted and a new lookup is performed. It's possible you were getting nailed on an old lookup that was no longer valid, but the cache hadn't reset yet.

I'm constantly trying to improve this script, so your input is extremely valuable to me - I'm looking into this now. I'll check the IP histories and find out exactly when your IP addresses were labeled anonymous, and when they went back to being normal Belgium again, and find out what happened in between..

At any rate you don't have to worry about this Your surfing should work just fine for now.

By the way Bruffy, I'm still working on your script! Haven't forgotten about it - trying to get it done here..

hi all

I can access mikes again

We do get an other ip when we close our connection but i never close it, i'm always online that's why I have the same ip for more then a year.

Thx for all the help!

thank you you are most appreciated for your patience and understanding.

i *think* our members in belgium are taken care of.

anneonline, are you able to click links now? if not, would you pm your username? i don't know it offhand.then, i can look into it further. i also wanted to respond to your post about the email problems. i have no idea what is going on, and we're not the only site having this problem. it *seems* that many of the major email services have put some new type of spam protection in place. we have been trying to get some cooperation from hotmail & msn, but the only thing they have to say is "we're not bouncing your emails." well ... they obviously are or the emails would be getting through. they are also telling their customers that they are not bouncing emails. hrmph!

we have a member who owns a mail-server using this same type of spam protection. i'm in the process now of testing our emails through him. he said that this new software views each email and assigns 'spam points' based on certain unknown parameters and rejects them at the server level. so, they theoretically aren't being bounced. they are simply being discarded. i hope we can resolve the problem.