[brlug-general] Google mail - aps etc... WAS Cox blocking email with numerical IP addresses.

[Dustin Puryear]

Great, now it can be discussed there since this thread is closed.

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Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration


Shannon Roddy wrote:
> Well, it'll refuse to die now....
> http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/08/01/31/2130251.shtml
> 
> On Jan 31, 2008 1:05 PM, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote:
>> Let's go ahead and close this thread out, thanks.
>>
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>> Puryear Information Technology, LLC
>> Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414
>> http://www.puryear-it.com
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>> Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers"
>>    http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices
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>> Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration
>>
>>
>>
>> willhill wrote:
>>> The reason I reported the problem was to help make people aware of it.  This
>>> thread has documented widespread, if not universal, port blocking, message
>>> filtering and censorship worthy of China rather than a nation that is
>>> cherishes freedom of speech and due process of law.
>>>
>>> Attacks on personal liberty are deliberate.  People in power want to identify
>>> and neutralized opposition.  A private example is the HP spying scandal that
>>> we are all familiar with.  I read about some public service examples
>>> yesterday:
>>>
>>> http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012208T.shtml
>>>
>>> I accept that you did not mean to insult me and think that this thread has
>>> served it's purpose.  Thanks again for the work arounds.
>>>
>>> On Thursday 31 January 2008 9:14 am, Scott Harney wrote:
>>>> I feel that this list is a discussion of technical issues focused on using
>>>> Linux. I have deliberately and specifically avoided "moral" or other
>>>> non-technical aspects.  I am dealing with the situation as it is, not as it
>>>> should be.  And at least there are viable technical workarounds, things you
>>>> can do with your Linux machine.
>>>> ....
>>>> The average user don't grasp that there is a problem here.
>>>> ....
>>>> I think that for the most part, it's more ignorance than a willful attack
>>>> on individual liberty.  The results are the same regardless of motivation.
>>>
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