Originally Posted by DNSStuff

Sorry, you have triggered our rate limiting system. Specifically, you are using NTL, a very poor Internet provider that forces all their customers to share the same IP address (using a 'web proxy'). We are not aware of any other major ISP that does this. It means that when one of their customers does something bad (which happens often), it looks like you did it. Please contact NTL and ask to be removed from their 'web proxy', or find another Internet provider, or you can try waiting until the ban is removed.

Originally Posted by Jon T

I would also like to point out that accessing any of the categories on ebay.co.uk is impossible at the moment through NTL's Notts proxies, all I get when clicking on a category is an error saying "the connection was refused when attempting to contact altfarm.mediaplex.com", same error is firefox, netscape and IE, everything is normal again when I specify a non NTL proxy.