On 14/04/2021 21:02, Paul wrote:
SH wrote:
Well I found my answer:

My static IP has been blocked temporarily due to

Connection time exceeded 90000 seconds in 86400 seconds

How is that even possible to have a connection time greater than 86400
seconds?

You already posted the clue in your above posts.

You've set up your news reader to check for new news
articles, at *way too high a frequency*. Don't
do that!

They hate it when you do that.

Set the check for new news articles, once every
15 minutes (900 seconds).

Reduce the Thunderbird max_connections, from
8 to 2 or even 1.

Thunderbird is adjustable, and with no trouble
at all, you can stay within the TOS limits of the
service.

Â* Paul


Well I used to be on Virginmedia and they had their "own" news server
(which in reality was provided by Astraweb or Solarwinds over a VM proxy
IIRC).

Checking every minute was not a problem for VM.

I then switch from VM to Vodafone fibre to lower my bills AND get higher
speeds both ways.

The VM news server is not accessible from Vodafone and Vodafone do not
provide any news server service at all.

So thats how I ended up with AIOE (and now Eternal September too)