The Astronomer's Telegram vicissitudes

About one year ago, by clicking on one or more links in an email to The Astronomer’s Telegram, my IP was blacklisted by this website, which was quite annoying.

So, I have written several times to the managers of the Telegram (R. E. Rutledge & Editor-in-Chief Derek Fox, Editor), but they did not respond, initially.

Robin Leadbeater, on Cloudy Nights, then kindly suggested that I could write directly to these two people at their university professionnal email addresses, which I did. My access to Telegram was quickly restored, after several months of being unable to connect.

Now, last month, same problem; by clicking on a Telegram link in an email from BAAVSS-Alert, my IP was blacklisted again.

I have written again, and again, to Mr Rutledge & Fox several times since then, but they simply ignore my messages, and never respond.

From this I conclude:

1- This website is very poorly programmed/coded, and it detects a number of false attacks,

2 – Mr Rutledge & Fox absolutely don’t care about amateurs and readers,

3 - All this stuff is quite pathetic at this level of competence and importance in our community.

4 – It is essential to divorce from The Astronomer’ Telegram, which no longer deserves my consideration, however humble it may be.

The corollary question: which website to replace Telegram with? How to obtain first-hand informations and astronomical alerts of the same kind?

What can you advise me?

Any suggestions are welcome,
Cheers,
Christophe

Obviously I don’t know the details, but it almost sounds as though there is some ‘funny’ involved in the e-mail links. Have you tried simply visiting the AT Web site apart from any other link?

https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/

I have never had any problem simply browsing the titles this way.

\Brian

Thanx Brian for the reply.

The fact is I can’t get no satisfaction :upside_down_face: when I try to go to the Telegram, any way I do this, direct link or from link in an email, from my laptop, nor from my smartphone - I suppose this is the same internet provider, and the same IP.

I’m simply blocked and any content is unavailable.

Here are a few more details, if you like.
https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/916417-the-astronomers-telegram-out-of-order/

So, I no longer have any hopes with the Telegram, alas. That’s why I’m seeking for an alternative solution.

C