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

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Last post!!!  :)


On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Dustin Puryear wrote:

> Great, now it can be discussed there since this thread is closed.
>
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> Puryear Information Technology, LLC
> Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414
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> Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers"
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> Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration
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> 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
>>>
>>> Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers"
>>>    http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices
>>>
>>> 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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