After accessing www.lbfca.diaryland.com, I click on the "More Lechery
in Guestbook3" and get the error message........."Page cannot be
displayed".  I have tried everything............Earthlink help and two
computer gurus I trust implicitly.  Have cleared cache, cookies and
history.  Also have done Windows Updates.  Do you have any
suggestions?

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Request for Question Clarification by scriptor-ga on 01 Feb 2004 15:20 PST

Dear ladyluke,

Does this link work for you? Please click it and let me know the result.
http://lbfca3.signmyguestbook.com/

Scriptor

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Clarification of Question by ladyluke-ga on 01 Feb 2004 16:28 PST

Hi Scriptor

No, it doesn't work.  I get the same "Page cannot be displayed" message.

ladyluke

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 02 Feb 2004 14:01 PST

Does this link work for you?

http://tinyurl.com/2jckf

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Clarification of Question by ladyluke-ga on 02 Feb 2004 19:35 PST

To pinkfreud-ga

No, that link didn't work either.  Same message......"Page cannot be displayed".

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 02 Feb 2004 20:25 PST

This is a puzzlement. Both the link posted by Scriptor and the TinyURL
link that I posted take me to a page entitled "Welcome to the
Lecherous Broads for Clay Aiken Guestbook Volume 3."

Is there some sort of network censorship to which you are subject? I
know that some schools and businesses have filters that can interfere
with access to certain kinds of sites. I wonder whether the word
"lecherous" may be activating some sort of censorship that is
preventing you from seeing the page. It's certainly not porn, but it
could be mistaken for porn by an overzealous filter.

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Clarification of Question by ladyluke-ga on 03 Feb 2004 07:36 PST

To pinkfreud-ga

LBFCA is a website I have accessed for months now with no problem.  I
can't think of anything I've done that would change network
censorship.  Also, there are other websites that I have the same
problem with.........not being able to
access a link from them.  Not all.........just some.  Another
thing....I know several of the gals who post on the Lecherous Broads
site and they aren't having any trouble.  Thanks for continuing to
persue this.  I appreciate it immensely.  LCU

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 03 Feb 2004 16:34 PST

Hello again, ladyluke.

Try this link, which goes through an anonymizing proxy service:

http://proxify.com/nph-proxy.cgi/011110A/http/lbfca3.signmyguestbook.com/

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Clarification of Question by ladyluke-ga on 03 Feb 2004 20:50 PST

To pinkfreud-ga

It worked!!!  I still don't know what caused me to lose access to the
site in the first place, but I'm just glad to be able to access it
now. I've added the link to my favorites.  Thanks for the help.  Have
an even greater regard for Google now.  You have accomplished
something my gurus couldn't solve.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 03 Feb 2004 21:15 PST

ladyluke,

I'm delighted that my work-around enabled you to see the page, but I
am still baffled as to the cause of your problem. Do you want me to
post my proxified link as the official answer to your question (and
explain why it works), or do you require that the root cause be
identified?

~pinkfreud

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Request for Question Clarification by tisme-ga on 03 Feb 2004 21:38 PST

Try doing a search for a file called HOSTS and delete it to see if
that will fix it.

tisme-ga

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Clarification of Question by ladyluke-ga on 10 Feb 2004 11:41 PST

Hi pinkfreud

Sorry it has taken me so long to reply.  I wanted to continue to use
Proxify and see just how well it works.  Of course, I keep getting a
message asking if I want to subscribe.....and I may in due time.  It
has been working well.  Thanks so much for your input!

The website doesn't have the page... sorry :(. No solution for this
(only email the webmaster about it). The link doesn't exist anymore
:(.

http://lbfca3.signmyguestbook.com/
works for me using Opera browser from a British ISP

www.lbfca.diaryland.com gives the Diaryland error page. However both
pages display correctly in the browser.

Owain

http://lbfca.diaryland.com/ works when followed as a link *back* from lbfca3.
diaryland.com 

Strange.

Owain

One thought which occured to me when I had similar problems was the
case of the personal firewall.
Some privacy products like norton or mcafee have a feature which
filters supposed "dangerous" websites. and they also allow you to
manually add websites to the "prevent access" feature. If you have a
product like this, try disabling it and give it a go.

The problem may have occurred because the web site's hosting company
is using a blacklist of IP addresses that supposedly are sources of
spam. These blacklists can be much too broad and often include dialup
and broadband IP addresses... which are reused by different users all
the time. You could be dialing into a block of IPs that is currently
on such a questionable list. The anonymizing proxy has a different IP
address, which is all the web site sees when you use that proxy, so in
this case you get through. I've had similar problems from time to time
and occasionally use a proxy on my server at work when I need to visit
a site that, for some misguided reason, "hates" my home IP address.