On Sunday 22 May 2005 01:19, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2005-05-21 at 12:22 +0700, AD Marshall wrote:
Heeheehee... Hey, Carlos! Thanks again. No need to think much more about this. It was just a casual clueless question.
It does good for my general culturization (does the word exist?) O:-) In America, anything is possible :-)
One thing you might not have noticed: VietNam's connections to the Net are carefully limited and firewalled and filtered (to "protect" the internal network from both the outside and access to the outside), unless you work in one of the IT Industrial Parks/Centres. Normally, you'll never see the real IP of anyone in VietNam, just the IP of one of the gateways. Filtering has been relaxed quite a bit over the last few years -- they used to filter all of geocities and sometimes even news.com and idg.net -- but it's still there.
I had heard about this, but I forgot completely.
Also the handful of state-sanctioned ISPs here have to undergo regular inspections by the MoPs and MCIs (Ministry of Police & Ministry of Culture & Information). They used to have to mirror all email in and out of the country, until the ISPs servers started failing under the excess loads.
Politicians usually miscalculate these things in all countries X-)
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson