have i been banned?

Mar 31, 2004 01:11

i've either been hacked or banned. or i really need to get some sleep.

is cos working for anyone else?

is any staff member able to shed some light on the subject?

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captainnick March 30 2004, 15:08:01 UTC
Well now that I'm awake I can tell you what exactly is going down.

Last night I tried to access the forums from my home computer, and I found myself mysteriously logged out. I tried logging in twice and both times it tells me my name/password is wrong.

Fearing for my safety, I opened up a couple of threads that I'd posted in and saw to my relief that I was still a fifth year.

I tried logging in one more time and it failed again. I suspected then that I might have been hacked, so I do the forgotten password thing, and I get a new one mailed to me.

So, I get the new password, go back onto the forums and try to log in. What happens? The server goes dead. I stop receiving any responce from the server at all.

Just to make the point clearer, I'll say it again. I go to www.cosforums.com, it loads, I type my name and password into the boxes, hit submit, and from that point on the server fails.

Now, the exact same thing has happened this morning here at work, where I'm on cable (dialup at home) with a different ISP.

I see two possiblities .. either

1. This is an elaborate unofficial banning system whereby each time I try to log in to my account my IP address is blocked, or
2. There's something wrong with the server that's preventing it from logging me in, or something.

And this doesn't explain how my password got corrupted in the first place.

If I haven't been officially banned then something is really screwy. Who do I have to email about this technical disaster?

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