It's the Syrian Telecom who usually bans websites here, but this time it's the other way around, Slashdot has just banned a Syrian ISP's proxy server (SCS-NET), I'm getting the following when trying to browse Slashdot through SCS-NET:

Either your network or ip address has been banned from Slashdot

...due to script flooding that originated from your network or ip address -- or this IP might have been used to post comments designed to break web browser rendering. Or you crawled us with a rude robot, especially one that doesn't understand RFCs very well.

If you feel that this is unwarranted, feel free to include your IP address (212.31.117.128) in the subject of an email, and we will examine why there is a ban. If you fail to include the IP address (again, in the subject!), then your message will be deleted and ignored. I mean come on, we're good, we're not psychic.

If you think your IP number is different from 212.31.117.128, tell us both.

If you are using a browser with some kind of add-on that crawls or caches pages for you, tell us what it is.

Since you can't read the FAQ because you're banned, here's the relevant portion:

Slashdot still works through other Syrian ISPs.

Now I wonder, is someone abusing Slashdot through SCS-NET's proxy? Is the proxy mis-configured? Is Slashdot getting too much traffic from SCS-NET users (I really doubt this one)?

Time to investigate, will post updates here.