This has been explained to you in multiple emails.

We do not blacklist IP addresses for single spam posts. We block IP addresses for sustained spam over days or more often weeks.

If we unblock your IP, you will post once or twice on the forums, then the spam will start, and we will then have to block the IP again.

So the solution is to either :

1. Ask you to stop spamming the forums. You say you are not and I believe you. So ...




2. You will have to wait until the party or parties responsible stop spamming the forums. We review banned IP addresses from time to time and will reverse the ban when the spam stops.

In the mean time you will have to use other support methods such as Ask Ubuntu, irc, or launchpad.

Why are you re-installing your OS ? I never advised that. How does that stop some third party from spamming the forums from your IP ?

You can lodge a complaint with your IP provider or you can contact the local authorities, but often they are disinterested. If you do identify the spammer, and get them to stop, I will unban your IP. Otherwise we wait them out. They usually go away eventually .... Sometimes they come back and are re-banned. In the case of your IP, with the previous history, it is likely to remain banned for some time.

We are blocking an 'block' of IPs - so in other words, because of the way your ISP gives you an IP address, someone on your block of IPs (aka, someone in your internet phone number area code) is spamming and so it's easier for us to block the entire block instead of just the specific spammer IP, since it changes every day.

Possibilities:

• Your WiFi is not secure.




• Your ISP is cycling IPs in a really odd fashion.