Sorry a little late to this party but 2 thoughts from this side of the pond, as a past and sometimes present security/network engineer, i find blocking any particular CIDR or individual address is pretty ineffective these days since some chap or chapess invented a proxy and vpn solution. Some of my networks have more tunnelled traffic arriving now than not, I only know this as a monitor certain vpn providers...
And if the list needs to move then would you want restrictions if you could based on county of origin, who would maintain, lots of questions for a Saturday evening😑
> On 9 Jan 2021, at 15:14, Craig Lalley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Tracy,
> It's not state secrets, it's bad agents from outside the country with way too much time on their hands and network admins with not enough time.
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> I have a customer that is a community college, I showed them how to block large blocks of IP addresses.
> My guess is the network admins were just tired of dealing with issues.
> There is also the argument to be made that the internal pc's could become vectors. But what do I know? I do know Jeff Kell would have explained it to us.
>
> -Craig
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> On Saturday, January 9, 2021, 6:47:20 AM PST, Tracy Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Country filtering? So the University has state secrets on their
> list-servers?
>
> Or DRM? Which means they're acting like the BBC. (I bet they don't
> block China.)
>
> It is probably high time to move to a commercial service before a
> nameless bureaucrat at the University decides to cancel this thing
> altogether.
>
> And move the archive.
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>> On 1/9/21 7:29 AM, Mike Loewen wrote:
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>> The users reported back that using a US proxy allowed them to
>> access the archives and subscription page. So yes, there does appear
>> to be a block in place for non-US addresses.
>>
>>> On Sat, 9 Jan 2021, Robert W.Mills wrote:
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>>> The short answer to your question is YES.
>>>
>>> Last year I needed to find something in the archive. Every time I tried
>>> the connection timed out. I sent an email to the raven admin reporting
>>> the problem. Their response was to tell me that they were blocking ALL
>>> non-US connections.
>>>
>>> I can't remember the exact reasons given but I did post it to the list.
>>> Somebody who has access to the archive or has a copy of my post should
>>> be able to send you a copy.
>>>
>>> -- Robert
>>>
>>> On 09/01/2021 03:41, Mike Loewen wrote:
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>>>> A couple of users from the Vintage HP list are trying to subscribe
>>>> to this
>>>> list, but are unable to reach the server (raven.utc.edu). One is in
>>>> Australia
>>>> and one in Canada. Is there a block in place for users outside the US?
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