On Thu, June 14, 2007 12:42 pm, Jason Kraus wrote: > I was working at the high school today and I was curious about open source > books and such. > > Come to find out there is an organization dedicated to bring open source > books to california: http://www.opensourcetext.org/links.htm > > I followed some of the links to find that http://en.wikibooks.org/ is > blocked?!? Most odd. Looking at google cache its rather apparent there is > nothing offensive or illegal on the site, just textbooks that are there > legitimately. So I also tried wikipedia.org and that to is blocked. I > might > understand why they would block wikipedia, but wikibooks? > > Sadly I can't seem to find the email to request why these pages are > blocked, > does anyone know what the email is on hand? If not I'll do some more > digging.
Sorry I can't help, but I'm curious as to why you say "I might understand why they would block wikipedia." Subversive content? Plagarism control? Surely having the EB or the World Book in the library is OK, why not wikipedia? -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
