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From: "Noah Evans" <noah.evans@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] sources access from brazil
Date: Mon,  3 Sep 2007 11:34:22 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56a297000709021934x361240c7ra989ea641332b4b2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d375e920709021926u6ca3d1f1hf3f459e1c096b299@mail.gmail.com>

Uriel,

As long as Plan 9 is hosted in the US and contains certain software
it's illegal to export to certain countries(IIRC North Korea, Iran
etc...). To stay on the right side of American law Geoff and gang have
to do it that way.

Noah

On 9/3/07, Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is probably a silly question, but why should anyone be denied
> access on the basis of whatever a whois server who knows where might
> or might not do?
>
> Best wishes and thanks for fixing the issues iru was having.
>
> uriel
>
> On 9/2/07, geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com <geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:
> > If you think you're being denied access incorrectly, please include
> > your IP address(es) in your mail to us.  The mostly likely cause is
> > that we can't reach a whois server.
> >
> >
>


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-03  2:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-01 17:09 Iruata Souza
2007-09-01 21:41 ` geoff
2007-09-02  1:07   ` Iruata Souza
2007-09-02 11:47     ` Gabriel Diaz
2007-09-02 16:45       ` Gabriel Diaz
2007-09-02 19:28       ` geoff
2007-09-03  2:26         ` Uriel
2007-09-03  2:34           ` Noah Evans [this message]
2007-09-03  3:04             ` Uriel
2007-09-03 13:12               ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-03 17:44                 ` balaji
2007-09-03 19:44                   ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-03 19:55                     ` balaji
2007-09-03 11:19             ` Charles Forsyth
2007-09-03 12:41               ` Iruata Souza
2007-09-03 13:48                 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-12-02 23:15 ` [9fans] " Iruata Souza

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