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Subject: Re: [9fans] sources access from brazil
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Mon,  3 Sep 2007 14:48:12 +0100
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>> of course, that's separate from the suggestion of using better databases etc.
>>
>
> as long as we all know about sources' importance, i think the use of
> better sources for determining request locations is of principal
> matter since, for example, the actual scheme is so non-optimal that it
> was denying access to me (and who knows who else) while allowing for
> other people on the same country.

that's true (which is why i said the databases etc was another matter).
on the other hand, even there, the whois stuff seemed to be working for
many years, so perhaps it's just a matter of accommodating the cases
that have recently gone wrong.