Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/02

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Subject: [Leica] Blocked for international traffic
From: kenf01 at gmail.com (Ken Firestone)
Date: Tue Nov 2 11:51:19 2004
References: <Pine.SOL.4.58-L.0411022018110.14180@helene.uio.no>
 
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 20:19:39 +0100 (MET), Daniel Ridings
<daniel.ridings@edd.uio.no> wrote:
> I read in the paper this morning that the site:
> 
> http://www.georgewbush.com
> 
> blocks out international visitors. I can't get in. Can anyone else from
> outside the US?
> 
> Or is it just very very busy? I get the message that I'm "not authorized"
> to visit it.

This was a big story in the geek community about a week ago. Yes they
are blocking internet protocol addresses that are assigned to networks
outside of the US. Why? No one seemed to know.


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Replies: Reply from timatherton at theedge.ca (Tim Atherton) ([Leica] Blocked for international traffic)
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