Let me look into this. There are United States export laws that prevent us
from serving countries such as Iran, Sudan, North Korea and Cuba, but if I
recall correctly the Obama administration lifted these controls on some of
the countries.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Jan Z <[email protected]> wrote:

> As of recently (last few days) users accessing our service are
> getting:
>
> ---
>
> Forbidden
>
> Your client does not have permission to get URL (...) from this
> server. (Client IP address: 91.98.x.y)
>
> You are accessing this page from a forbidden country.
>
> ---
>
> As this is not mentioned in the Terms of Service or any GAE
> documentation, I've opened an issue to get the docs, the TOS, or GAE
> fixed.
>
> There are a number of organizations that legitimately operate in these
> countries that are being affected (NGO's, logistics, etc.) - it's
> disappointing that Google modified the service without notification.
>
> It also appears that Google Apps itself is functioning OK, so not sure
> why only components of Google infrastructure are affected?
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