[arp242]

> They are blocking the whole ip-range of my provider.

That's not necessarily unreasonable, depending on which provider that is.

Sites like Wikipedia also block entire ranges to prevent spam. Unfortunately sometimes people do get caught up in that (as I did last year).

[panki27]

Even if you get them to create an exception for your IP, personal experience shows that this lasts for 2 months tops, then you're blocked again. I gave up, getting my personal mail server to communicate with Outlook is not worth it.

[smcl]

Didn’t the Wikipedia one just block anonymous contributions from some ip range? As in, you could still sign up, login and contribute?

[arp242]

No; was blocked even when logged in. Had to create a ticket to unblock (IP range had been re-assigned, which is why I got blocked after I moved).