You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you appear to be using a mainstream browser (such as Firefox or Chrome) from a network area (IP address range) that is used for servers, such as cloud provider networks. As of late 2025, there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that claim to be browsers and work from cloud and server provider networks. To reduce the load on Wandering Thoughts I'm experimenting with (attempting to) block all of them, and you've run into this.
If this is in error and you're a real person using a browser from a fixed IP address in a cloud, VPS, or server provider address range, you can contact me at my current place at the university (you should be able to work out the email address from that). You'll need to let me know what IP address and browser you're using, ideally with its exact User-Agent string.
Chris Siebenmann, 2025-11-26