Ask PG: May I please have my IP unblocked?

3 points by dsrguru 13y ago ↗ HN

Last night while writing a tool for Hacker News, my test code crawled through several pages of HN in rapid succession, resulting in an IP ban. I've since changed the test code to wait a while between requests to prevent server strain, but I would like to be able to return to HN on my own machine. I sent you an email with my IP address. Thanks in advance.

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noahc 13y ago ↗

I think this is automatic and i was usually unblocked in a few (12ish hours)

[dead] dsrguru 13y ago ↗

It's been a couple days and I still haven't been. :/ I'm sure pg has too many emails to read every one, but I hope he has time to check all the Ask PG submissions. I wonder if there's a better way to reach him than email or HN.