[54675] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Iraq net shutdown temporarily
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Sun Jan 12 17:04:38 2003
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 22:03:10 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
To: Scott Granados <scott@wworks.net>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <002101c2ba86$56387600$6801a8c0@hqloaner>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Scott Granados wrote:
>
> So who's up for adding the military in to spews:).
>
Did someone get a abuse complaint from Iraq?
>
> ----- 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.
> >
> >
>
