What I'm saying is the same nameless bureaucrat could simply turn it off
because they're tired of dealing with it.
Or it gets handed off to some schmuck with a lack of corporate knowledge
to manage it, with the same result.
(My other points are merely extra excuses.)
On 1/9/21 10:14 AM, Craig Lalley wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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
>
>
> On Saturday, January 9, 2021, 6:47:20 AM PST, Tracy Johnson
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> On 1/9/21 7:29 AM, Mike Loewen wrote:
> >
> > 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:
> >
> >> 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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