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<p class="MsoNormal">Same here. Only two cases so far, and we don’t know the browser, but they both seemed connected to Zotero and a malformed proxy setting. Glad to hear we aren’t alone if not glad to hear its happening.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lisa Martincik (she/they)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Eril-l <eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Sara Hills<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 23, 2023 2:19 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Kenyon Stuart <kstuart@umich.edu>; eril-l@lists.eril-l.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] Re: [Eril-l] Taylor & Francis blocking IP addresses due to excessive use<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hello Kenyon -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Yes, we've experienced the same thing. We've had a number of reports of on-campus IP addresses being blocked. We're still trying to figure out what the cause was/is.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I'm happy to know we're not alone!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoAutoSig"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Sara K Hills</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoAutoSig"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoAutoSig"><i><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Interim Head of Acquisitions and Resource Management</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoAutoSig"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">American University, Washington DC 20016</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a>> on behalf of Kenyon Stuart <<a href="mailto:kstuart@umich.edu">kstuart@umich.edu</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 23, 2023 2:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a> <<a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] Taylor & Francis blocking IP addresses due to excessive use</span>
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Use caution with links and attachments.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We received a few reports last week from Taylor & Francis that they had temporarily blocked one of our IP addresses because of excessive connection to Taylor & Francis Online
(<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/tandfonline.com__;!!IaT_gp1N!wSm7aYZLkckv-8S1C-SYwjntc5qMzp8ODu3z8wutJm7cSZGTO_AYW6G5VUdGKWibs7S8xyLzjwiA4eHfEuc$">tandfonline.com</a>). The activity occurs over a period of one or two minutes and involves dozens
of connections to only 1 or 2 pages. The block seems to occur after 100 total connection attempts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Our IT group investigated and suggested the activity could be due to a buggy browser. We've contacted a few users and they mentioned they were using Chrome and Zotero.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Has anyone else experienced similar issues with Taylor & Francis Online or with Chrome or Zotero? If yes, do you have any suggestions on what we can do or should investigate?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kenyon Stuart<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#222222">Electronic Resource Management</span> Unit<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">320 Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Michigan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">email:</span><span style="color:blue"> <a href="mailto:kstuart@umich.edu" target="_blank">kstuart@umich.edu<br>
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