> -----Original Message----- > From: Jake Khuon [mailto:kh...@neebu.net] > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 12:07 PM > To: Patrick W. Gilmore > Cc: NANOG list > Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt > > On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 11:27 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > > > I think it does not matter. Censorship is censorship. (So much for > "routing around it".) >
I think it would be pretty hard to actually cut off communications when the telephone system is still working. You can move a lot of email by dialup UUCP if you wanted to. I am guessing that satellite internet still works and landline dialup to a modem outside the country still works. And there's always static routes :)