Re: interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering

2004-01-15 Thread Chris Brenton
On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 17:11, Eric Kuhnke wrote: And if he fails, what with the fact that sending all Internet traffic in the whole country through a single chokepoint obviously creates a single point of failure, all Net traffic in Saudi Arabia stops. Not sure if its still the same setup,

Re: interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering

2004-01-15 Thread Matthew Sullivan
Chris Brenton wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 17:11, Eric Kuhnke wrote: And if he fails, what with the fact that sending all Internet traffic in the whole country through a single chokepoint obviously creates a single point of failure, all Net traffic in Saudi Arabia stops. Not sure if its

Re: interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering

2004-01-15 Thread Randy Bush
i was helping get the link up into kacst (their nsf equivalent) in ryadh back in '94, and a rather grownup friend there, Abdulaziz A. Al Muammar, who had his phd from the states and all that, explained it to me something like this way. yes, to a westerner, our ways of shielding our society

Re: interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering

2004-01-15 Thread Steve Carter
There is a price to pay for freedom. I would prefer to receive (or have to personally control) all the nastiness that appears in my inbox than give up any of my Internet freedoms. But that is my opinion of what is right for me. That, however, does not answer your question. My answer is that

Re: interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering

2004-01-15 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Randy Bush wrote: i was helping get the link up into kacst (their nsf equivalent) in ryadh back in '94, and a rather grownup friend there, Abdulaziz A. Al Muammar, who had his phd from the states and all that, explained it to me something like this way. yes, to a

RE: interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering

2004-01-15 Thread H. Michael Smith, Jr.
Bush Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Randy Bush wrote: i was helping get the link up into kacst (their nsf equivalent) in ryadh back in '94, and a rather grownup friend there, Abdulaziz A. Al Muammar, who had his phd

Re: interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering

2004-01-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 2004-01-16, Vadim Antonov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installing a whitelisting and challenge-response mail filer on my box [my rant about c/r elided as offtopic and beaten to death here] The solution to high offensiveness is to grow up and stop behaving like the sight of some physiological

RE: interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering

2004-01-15 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, H. Michael Smith, Jr. wrote: For the record... I have first hand knowledge that KSA's filtering is not too effective. Good :) The more people are exposed to humanity of the Great Satan, the less they're likely to tolerate their own fanatics and zealots. --vadim