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We're running some very strict stuff to filter out any questionable traffic, and probably have a fair amount of false positives. Email me your IP address at help@strikesapphire.com and I can whitelist it. Having said that, if it's telling you that you should probably contact your ISP.

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Well I just wanted to check the website. So it's no bother.

However contacting the ISP again is a bad advice. They allocate dynamic IP addresses and can't do much if an IP address used by a spammer was one day allocated to me. Checking the IP address to determine whether the computer is part of a botnet is a flawed approach. It's not as simple as that.

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