I can make a comment using VPN to EMBL... - Michael Kuhn

Suspicion: FriendFeed banned us for suspicious activity coming from a single IP - Michael Kuhn

Ruchira, didn't you say you know some of the FriendFeed founders? Now would be the time... - Michael Kuhn

Looks like it, I can comment using a tunnel to Berlin - Roland Krause

Yeah, messages through VPN (Golm) work - Diego M. Riaño-Pachón

just testing - Cass Johnston

Failing for me on the mässa public WLAN too... - Egon Willighagen

Can confirm that comments work using an external IP. - Gabriele Sales

Has anyone asked contacted friendfeed to ask if we can have access again yet? - Cass Johnston

I emailed FF feedback with your problem, but then remembered that they're on Twitter (@friendfeed), some of the staff are probably there too. Maybe tweet or DM them for quicker response? - Neil Saunders

Problem fixed. Yay! - Ruchira S. Datta

testing... phew! I second @Ruchira's "Yay" :) - Allyson Lister

Our apologies everybody, we had flagged the conference IP address as possibly causing spam. We will look into ways to make the detection more robust so this doesn't happen in the future for conferences. - Casey Muller

Thanks a lot for your quick response, Casey! - Ruchira S. Datta

@Casey: Thanks for the swift response time! - Oliver Hofmann

Agreed with @Oliver - thanks @Casey! - Allyson Lister