Re: successfully echelonised

[Mark Jeftovic <markjr@privateworld.com>]

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On 30-Sep-99 Robert Kemp wrote:
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> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: jesse hirsh <jesse@tao.ca>
> 
> 
>  > the isp is the gate way to the internet for most of us who don't have the
>  > priviledge to own our own infrastructure. can't the isp control what gets
>  > accessed and what doesn't? can't the isp control which domains you can 
> send
>  > emails to and which you can't? isn't this regulation (control) ?
> 
> no, the isp can't really do that. theoretically it could, but practically it 
> can't.
> ======================================================================
> RK:
> ummmmmm.....then why is it that some sites are easily accessible from AT&T 
> Worlnet and Earthlink but I get a single word, in html format, when using 
> AOL that says "FORBIDDEN - you do not have permission to access this site 
> from this server."
> 
> It is usually pertaining to information on the political fringe.
> 


Because it is very common to summarily ban all AOL access, in IRC 
channels, web pages, sendmail, etc. 

-mark

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