Juilliard says it never blocked Slipped Disc
mainA senior executive has sent us a friendly denial of our previous story:
Reading your blog from my desk at Juilliard this morning (as I often do and have for years!) and eager to clarify – Juilliard doesn’t block (and has never blocked!) access to Slipped Disc!
Based on some informal polling, it sounds as though some our students and faculty are trying to access your site through slippeddisc.com (two “d’s”), rather than the correct address slippedisc.com, which loads for all of us without a problem. I’m checking with our CTO as to whether there could be some other technical issue, as well as why the incorrect slippeddisc.comdomain is posing problems both here and off campus (malware?), but please note this is most certainly not an editorial choice on the part of Juilliard management, as my colleagues and I have been able to access your blog without a hitch in recent days / months / years.
Well, that’s really good to know.
A dialogue from the film Shipping News (2001):
Billy: It’s finding the center of your story, the beating heart of it, that’s what makes a reporter. You have to start by making up some headlines. You know: short, punchy, dramatic headlines. Now, have a look, what do you see?
[Points at dark clouds at the horizon]
Billy: Tell me the headline.
Quoyle: Horizon Fills With Dark Clouds?
Billy: Imminent Storm Threatens Village.
Quoyle: But what if no storm comes?
Billy: Village Spared From Deadly Storm.
Bravo!
+1
“Just in: Juilliard community can’t spell slippedisc correctly”
Love it.
I just typed in “slippeddisc.com” from Paris and got an offer from GODADDY to buy the name for my new website. Shall I ?
There is definitely a problem with slippedisc.com (with one “d”) returning 403 Forbiddens based on the incoming IP address. Looks like Cloudflare is somehow triggering perhaps? At any rate, something you definitely want to take up with your ISP (since I’m pretty sure my home IP address is not in fact contributing to a denial-of-service attack on slippedisc, but I’ve been unable to access slippedisc.com for several months.)
Below is what I get when I do a manual HTTP connect (with cookie blanked for safety and HTML markup removed so it’ll actually post). You’ll note I get a 403 Forbidden from 104.25.201.24 which reports itself as a Cloudflare server (so it’s definitely nothing on my network).
C:\> telnet http://www.slippedisc.com 80
Trying 104.25.201.24…
Connected to http://www.slippedisc.com.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: http://www.slippedisc.com
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:03:22 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=xxx; expires=Fri, 01-Feb-19 19:03:22 GMT; path=/; domain=.slippedisc.com; HttpOnly
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Last-Modified: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 20:26:57 GMT
MS-Author-Via: DAV
Server: cloudflare
CF-RAY: xxx-IAD
10d
403 Forbidden
Forbidden
You do not have permission to access this document.
Web Server at slippedisc.com
I’ve had Cloudflare report issues with this site from time to time as well as well occasional short term connection problems.
Looks like Juilliard is in the clear and has responded tactfully to a heated accusation.
Say sorry, Norman. Go on, I bet you can’t.
Press means never having to say you’re sorry.
Ok, I’ve pressed but am still sorry!
I very much enjoyed the two-minute hate over at the other post. Doesn’t really matter who gets designated, there are plenty of people willing to declare it’s wicked/ cowardly/ collapsing/ too old/ too young/ hidebound/ trend-obsessed/ tarty/ dowdy. More false accusations please! People need to blow off steam.
True, the therapeutic aspect of a website such as this ought not be overlooked.
On the other hand, the IDRS (International Double Reed Society), whose executives are almost exclusively American, banned me from their Facebook page for posting several Slipped Disc articles there.