Archive for March 26th, 2008An anonymous reader writes in with news that China has unblocked the BBC Web site — the English-language version at any rate. No announcement was made, because China has never acknowledged blocking the BBC for the last decade. The Chinese-language version of the site has been blocked since its inception in 1999. The article speculates that the easing of censorship might be tied to the upcoming Olympic Games. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Chapter80 writes “At noon this day (Eastern Standard Time), the long dead ORDB spam identification system began returning false positives as a way to get sleeping users to remove the ORDB query from their spam filters. The net effect: all mail is blocked on servers still configured to use the ORDB service, which was taken out of commission in December of 2006. So if you’re not getting any mail, check your spam filter configuration!” Read more of this story at Slashdot. |
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