On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, David Haslam <d.has...@ukonline.co.uk> wrote: > It is sometimes blacklisted by the Great Firewall of China.
But why would that affect someone trying to access the website from southern Africa? I know network routing is not geographical or based on crow-flight distances or economic cost or indeed sensible but Africa routed through China ... unlikely. Is it that the OPs ISP is using a web site filter list and for whatever reason Crosswire is on there? My college used a commerical filtering subscription that had the Pirate Party (UK) web site blocked. The Pirate Bay web site I can sort of understand but a formally constituted political party seeking change in copyright, patent and freedom of speech should not be blocked; not even the BNP or GOP ought to appear on such lists. The other web site this commerical subscription blocked was PortableApps.com. The decisions to block a web site is mostly whimsical and capricous on the part of someone who has no idea what the ramifications are. While I applaud the college's original decision to block facebook all (the above) restrictions have been removed. The facebook one no less than because the college has created its own facebook feed. And I have similar networky problems with other web services. The then current routing in use would sometimes allow me access. Other times is was slow. And yet most times nothing would work as a traceroute would show a routing loop deep inside an en route ISP. But it would come as no surprise to me to find that one of the fat-pipes has split and spewing bits all over the ocean floor right now. Regards, Trevor <>< Re: deemed! _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
