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

[Karthik Poobalasubramanian]

What's going on?

Karthik
ps: I win.

Adam Melancon wrote:
> Go you!
> Oops, last post now.  I win! ;)
> 
> On Feb 1, 2008 11:38 AM, -ray <ray at ops.selu.edu
> <mailto:ray at ops.selu.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     Last post!!!  :)
> 
> 
>     On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> 
>     > Great, now it can be discussed there since this thread is closed.
>     >
>     > --
>     > 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
>     >
>     >
>     > 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
>     <mailto:dustin at puryear-it.com>> wrote:
>     >>> Let's go ahead and close this thread out, thanks.
>     >>>
>     >>> --
>     >>> 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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