[132539] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wikileaks unreachable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Jones)
Sun Nov 28 18:27:27 2010
In-Reply-To: <9FCF4212-0D76-4712-AF6C-EF48DA0DECFF@ianai.net>
From: James Jones <james@freedomnet.co.nz>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:27:13 -0500
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Remember not everyone who is on this list is a network operator and sometim=
es their misguided statements make it here. Do not get me wrong I wish wiki=
leaks would disappear, but there are better ways to do this than interfering=
with other peoples networks. I would hope the moderators are willing to ta=
ke the correction action when addressing such matters.
Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 28, 2010, at 6:11 PM, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:=
> On Nov 28, 2010, at 4:46 PM, Andrew Kirch wrote:
>> On 11/28/2010 4:34 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>>> anyone know why https://www.wikileaks.org/ is not reachable? nations
>>> state level censors trying to close the barn door after the horse has
>>> left?
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>> Good riddance. The sooner someone gives Julian Assange 230gr of shut
>> the f*** up, the better.
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> I find it distressing when Network Operators are willing to encourage DDoS=
'ing of a site. Any site. Especially on an operational list, where politic=
s are specifically prohibited.
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> You don't like Wikileaks, that's between you & Julian. A DDoS affects the=
infrastructure of multiple networks, users, other websites, etc., etc. Mos=
t people who read the last sentence thought to themselves that is beyond obv=
ious. It is a shame you do not understand it.
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> Put another way, perhaps you should take your own 230gr.
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> --=20
> TTFN,
> patrick
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