From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 12 12:26:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01789 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 12:26:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mortar.carlson.com (mortar.carlson.com [208.240.12.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01766 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 12:26:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from veldy@visi.com) Received: from mortar.carlson.com (root@localhost) by mortar.carlson.com with ESMTP id OAA21553; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:26:09 -0600 (CST) Received: from w142844 ([172.25.99.35]) by mortar.carlson.com with SMTP id OAA21549; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:26:05 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <027601be56c6$014eb000$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: "Jerry Raynor" Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" Subject: Re: Blocked Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:26:39 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I find that hard to believe. I would think they would get sued if that was the case. Besides, it would be a horrible nightmare for AOL to try to maintain a list of ISP's and then set up such a filter. If they are doing something so malicious, I would be really surprised. What is the evidence of such an accusation. I would be careful saying such things in public about a big company like AOL. Tom Veldhouse veldy@visi.com PS I am no fan of AOL. -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Raynor To: TFK2000@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 2:20 PM Subject: Re: Blocked >We discovered recently, after some complaints from our web customers that >from AOL you can not browse to any other internet service provider. They >may also be blocking FreeBSD because I guess its seen as "threat" to them. > > >On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 TFK2000@aol.com wrote: > >> Dear sir, I just sent you an e-mail explaining that when I try to access >> certain pages at you web site I get a prompt saying Forbiden you do not have >> permission to inter this site and you sent me an e-mail saying that my >> internet provider is doing it for some reason but I called them (AOL) and they >> say that they are not doing it so someone else is deliveratly blocking the >> links at your FreeBSD site so that we cannot get your freeBSD program. >> >> Thank you >> >> Thomas F. Kelly >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message