From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 12 15:43:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA23629 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:43:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA23597 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:43:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1187.bossig.com [208.26.241.187]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA08474; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:43:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36C4BCAE.567A35BF@3-cities.com> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:43:42 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" CC: Jerry Raynor , FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Blocked References: <027601be56c6$014eb000$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote: > > 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. > I am no fan either. I have an account and went to see what it was doing. It returns an error message that the server returned extended information. So, I browsed the FAQ in plain text. I saved it to disk. I then selected the FAQ ad a tar and proceeded to save it. I browsed the PDF and it fired off Acrobat Exchange. I kind of wonder if some parental permission haven't been set some where. Kent > -----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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message