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Re: 3-rotor enigma on ebay: $5200

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Kuhm)
Thu Mar 6 15:39:55 2003

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Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 21:25:11 +0100
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From: Peter Kuhm <peter.kuhm@plus.at>
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At 12:17 06.03.03 -0500, Daniel Garcia wrote:

>On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Don Davis wrote:
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2162414185
>> i saw this on the boing-boing blog.
>
>Interesting, when i try to look at this from work (over in brighton,
>actually), i get:
>
>        Dear User: 
>
>        Unfortunately, access to this particular category or item has
>        been blocked due to legal restrictions in your home country.
>        Based on our discussions with concerned government agencies and
>        eBay community members, we have taken these steps to reduce the
>        chance of inappropriate items being displayed.  Regrettably, in
>        some cases this policy may prevent users from accessing items
>        that do not violate the law. At this time, we are working on
>        less restrictive alternatives. Please accept our apologies for
>        any inconvenience this may cause you, and we hope you may find
>        other items of interest on eBay. 
>
>But I can hit it from my dsl line at home (right up the road).
>
>I guess Verizon T1-land is restricted...


it depends solely on the preferred language settings of your browser.

When I had German on the first position it was blocked too.
When I rearranged it below English I could view the page.

cheers,
Peter


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