Account is blocked

egolan · **Account is blocked -** 04-13-2009, 02:10 AM

For some, unknown, reason my account is blocked.
It seems that I can't log in to the refcard or Javalobby.
Who can I ask for the reason and to open my account?

Thanks

rick · 04-13-2009, 07:40 AM

Hi egolan,

You did nothing wrong. This weekend there was a sophisticated malware script creating accounts to post spam links on DZone, and all the accounts were using randomized gmail.com addresses for which there was no detectable pattern. We had to add gmail.com to our list of blocked domains to stop the flood of bogus accounts.

It's certainly not the case that everyone using free email accounts does bad things, but you'd be amazed at how consistently we find that people doing bad things are using free email accounts.

We'll try to turn gmail.com access back on today. If you have another email address, then you might change your account to use that. This is sure to happen again, and we're likely to prohibit free email domains.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Rick

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