[54674] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Iraq net shutdown temporarily
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Granados)
Sun Jan 12 16:31:31 2003
From: "Scott Granados" <scott@wworks.net>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 14:02:40 -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
So who's up for adding the military in to spews:).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 12:46 PM
Subject: Iraq net shutdown temporarily
>
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/12/MN125083.DTL
>
> Baghdad -- Apparently in response to a blanket e-mail campaign by the U.S.
> military urging dissent and defections, the Iraqi government shut down --
> at least temporarily -- all Internet access and the country's two e-mail
> servers.
>
> Although no official explanation was given, e-mail service stopped
> midafternoon on Friday. Some service was resumed Saturday morning.
>
>
