On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 codehead@ix.netcom.com wrote:

Back to the original question: It's obvious that NAI is operating under the belief that some ISPs are complying with some unspoken BXA idea/wannabe-law and blocking encrypted messages from "no-no" originating domains. Is this really the case, or is NAI also full of it on this one?

Bear replied: # # Well, the easy way to find out would be to spoof the headers # of an encrypted email so it appears to originate from one of # those countries, send it to a tentacle or an anonymous account, # and see if it falls into a black hole somewhere. The two times I've seen an IP address in the news for Saddam Hussein (I think via Pakistan), it never worked. It did when the reporter wrote up his article. Let's mirror his site in the U.S. Oh, wait, then we'd be a terrorist group.