[OSM-dev] Older change files before sept 27 2011

[Grant Slater]

On 6 August 2012 22:22, Mike  Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
>> planet.openstreetmap.org
>
> I cannot access this any more. as I said I am being blocked or something.
>

There are no IP address, user-agent* or other blocks at
http://planet.openstreetmap.org/
You are most definitely not blocked by us.

*: Note the robots.txt: http://planet.osm.org/robots.txt
The generic disallow is due to many idiotic crawler bots attempting to
slurp all our tasty gz / bz2 xml. robots.txt has been unchanged since
2010.

Regards
 Grant
 Part of OSM sysadmin team.