I have a suspicion in our wide sweeping banning of Russian IP addresses we might have nailed a few that weren't Russia accidentally. Make sure Randy has your home IP address so we can see what happened and take care of it.
We had a huge spammer influx that was driving Randy, Robin and myself bonkers, with most of the culprits coming from Russia. We got all but one of them before they posted, but we were banning at least 4 a day most days for a while. We finally had enough and we've been taking turns entering wide swaths of RIPE.net into the IP blocker on the server end. Ripe.net of course serves most of Asia, India, Russia and the Middle East. We have been attempting to block only those IP addresses linked to the areas of Russia that have been giving us the problems in these broad sweeping IP blocks.
If anyone is having trouble accessing the forums, please email us off the forum and let us know, or if you can log in from another computer, drop us a message here so we can fix the issue and get you back to rockin'. We have been making every effort to make sure we didn't accidentally ban an actual member, but mistakes do happen.