Dear James, Respectfully I want to remind you it is forbiden talking about: -God and what he/she did with our life :) -politics and how our leaders need a kick in there ass :) -other injuries, like F...ING using especially caps :) -democracy and what does not meant it -all combination above On the other hand I'm glad you are human too. I believed a wile ago that you are an answering machine like used by the FBI on the carefully listened antitero messages. Be kind, be nice, be gentle in everything you dooo.. remeber the song ? cheers, Vasile On 7/25/05, James Newtons Massmind wrote: > OH.... MY.... G!@#&%*(#_ > > I have just been accused of blocking access from piclist.com to anyone in > Israel. Here is exactly what was said, word for word: > > > For your information, another site that has banned Israeli access > > completely is craigslist.org . Because of their repeated and > > persistent blocking (including through > > anonymizer) of access from Israel, while not blocking other countries, > > they are pending for a complaint of antisemitism via the ADL. The > > piclist is not pending for anything like this, but I am interested to > > know whether access is difficult only from this country, from Asia in > > general, etc. I mentioned craigislist.org because they use a method > > very similar to yours, except they block even the server headers from > > being sent out. > > Can you FUCKING believe that? This guy can't access the site, due to some > weird problem with his ISP (what it is, I have no idea, but a few others > have reported the same issue, from inside the USA) so he decides that I'm > blocking Israel? > > This is the thanks I get? Some nutcase who happens to live in Israel gets to > accuse me of anti-Semitism because he can't get to my site? > > This is how I responded to him: > > > Until you mentioned your country, I had no idea that .il was even > > Israel. > > > > I can not believe that you would accuse me of this. Paranoia runs > > deep. How... Rude... Ungrateful... Words fail me. What an amazing > > disservice you do to your people. > > > > No, the other people who have reported to me that they have problems > > were from the USA. I do not block access from ANY country. Not even > > Pakistan, Iraq, or Iran. > > > > > Please feel free to do as you will. I will not waste any more time > > discussing this with you. If the ADL ever contacts me, I will simply > > destroy the site. > > Ok, so if that is how it is going to be, I guess I have to make a public > statement: > > I don't give a crap what country you come from. I have NEVER blocked ANYONE > from accesses my web site except for one reason: When people are running up > my bandwidth by automatically copying large parts of the site, I block the > access and display a page that CLEARLY explains why they are being blocked > and how to release the block themselves, instantly. > > Are we clear here? Does anyone see any evidence to the contrary? Have I ever > said a damn thing against anyone's country or religion or skin color or age > or sex or height or penis size or anything like that? > > Do I have to take sides now? Is it possible that piclist.com has been used > to build better terrorist bombs? And if so, do I have a moral obligation to > start deciding who can and can't access it? > > Has anyone ever done something nice for the world, without making a buck on > it, and NOT had some asshole make wild accusations about it? Who else has > put out about $100 a month of his own money to try to make good information > available to everyone and been accused of being a Jew hater in return? Am I > going to hear from an Islamic country next? > > May I ask that any other list members from Israel please respond to this > post and indicate that they are able to access the site? May I ask for > someone who really knows network troubleshooting to help figure out why some > people can't get to the site? > > Am I wrong to be as pissed off as I am right now? Will I ever get over this > and calm down enough to get on with life? > > Confused? You won't be after this episode of "Soap"! > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075584/ > > --- > James Newton: PICList webmaster/Admin > mailto:jamesnewton@piclist.com 1-619-652-0593 phone > http://www.piclist.com/member/JMN-EFP-786 > PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist