Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Adrian Farrel
Yeah, I agree with you and Martin: the Internet routes around failures, and this is clearly a failure. I was wondering if some operators wanted to share how they are going to try to resolve the order from the court. Yesterday my ISP at home was simply blocking the source IP address. DNS was

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Thomas Mangin
How long before TTB starts to use fast flux ... Sent from my iPad On 1 May 2012, at 09:00, Adrian Farrel adr...@olddog.co.uk wrote: Yeah, I agree with you and Martin: the Internet routes around failures, and this is clearly a failure. I was wondering if some operators wanted to share how

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Steve Dyer
On 01/05/2012 09:00, Adrian Farrel wrote: Yeah, I agree with you and Martin: the Internet routes around failures, and this is clearly a failure. I was wondering if some operators wanted to share how they are going to try to resolve the order from the court. The order from the original court

[uknof] Bottom posting

2012-05-01 Thread Thomas Mangin
IAABP (I Am A Bottom Poster - is this internet standard not applied on UKNOF? Assuming you are not trying to start a flamewar (hence why I am bottom posting), Modern clients organising mails by discussion/thread and hiding the part of the text already present in the previous mails in the

Re: [uknof] Bottom posting

2012-05-01 Thread William Anderson
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Thomas Mangin thomas.man...@exa-networks.co.uk wrote: IAABP (I Am A Bottom Poster - is this internet standard not applied on UKNOF? Assuming you are not trying to start a flamewar (hence why I am bottom posting), Modern clients organising mails by

Re: [uknof] Bottom posting

2012-05-01 Thread David Reader
On Tue, 1 May 2012 10:36:36 +0100 Thomas Mangin thomas.man...@exa-networks.co.uk wrote: NB: the list was too quiet, I am pleased to see that it is still so easy to get people all fired up :D welcome to the internet. d.

Re: [uknof] Bottom posting

2012-05-01 Thread Nic Lewis
head above parapet At 10:03 01/05/2012, William Anderson wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Thomas Mangin thomas.man...@exa-networks.co.uk wrote: IAABP (I Am A Bottom Poster - is this internet standard not applied on UKNOF? Assuming you are not trying to start a flamewar (hence why I

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 09:13 +0100, Steve Dyer wrote: The order from the original court said that including the site in Cleanfeed was sufficient to have actioned it. Cleanfeed, the Judge knew, was trivial to circumvent, so he made the order in the knowledge that it wouldn't actually work.

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Steve Karmeinsky
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 02:07:43PM +0100, Graeme Fowler wrote: On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 09:13 +0100, Steve Dyer wrote: The order from the original court said that including the site in Cleanfeed was sufficient to have actioned it. Cleanfeed, the Judge knew, was trivial to circumvent, so he

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
Whilst I personally believe that these solutions don't work as a standalone option I think we also need to remember that many if not all of the people downloading stuff via TPB are actually breaking the law. Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae. n...@domino.org

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Martin MacLeod-Brown
That is harsh Having had a look at pirate bay, the majority of material available is illegal - if it wasn't we wouldn't be blocking it.. Martin Macleod-Brown | Infrastructure Engineer – Networks Security Direct line +44 (0)20 7000 7772 | Email mmacl...@london.edu www.london.edu Don't forget,

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
Adrian, You make a very valid point also (my point was more about the free speech angle). I think there are many ways to frame this issue, are we aiding and abetting for example? In my view, what is clear is that as an industry we are not winning on the we can't do anything about this response

Re: [uknof] Bottom posting

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
point 1 exists in bottom posting also! I agree on HTML/Rich emails. Sadly nothing drives my email as well as Outlook does nor does anything manage calendar so well (and yes I've tried them all). -- Neil J. McRae. n...@domino.org From:

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Will Hargrave
On 1 May 2012, at 16:24, Neil J. McRae wrote: Whilst I personally believe that these solutions don't work as a standalone option I think we also need to remember that many if not all of the people downloading stuff via TPB are actually breaking the law. Are you actually sure about that?

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
That looks like a question out of GMAT LOL! -- Neil J. McRae. n...@domino.org From: akum...@gmail.com [akum...@gmail.com] on behalf of Anand Kumria [akum...@acm.org] Sent: 01 May 2012 16:39 To: Neil J. McRae Cc: uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk Subject: Re:

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Chris Russell
Whilst we can't expect a TV advert (...'you wouldn't steal a car'...) to hope to educate users on the between tort and criminal law Would you reasonably expect those adverts to educate anyone ? You wouldn't hit your gran in the face with an ice cream and a flake Chris Knowledge

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Adrian Kennard
The mugging one is a good example of where a lot of people would consider it foolish to get involved and almost certainly advise against it. People making roads are not encouraging speeding or car theft. Telephone companies do not have to filter what people say. Post office do not filter what

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
Yes of course I know Malcolm. Welcome to the we don't give a stuff world where individual interest is all that matters! Be careful what you wish for. -- Neil J. McRae. n...@domino.org From: Malcolm Hutty [malc...@linx.net] Sent: 01 May 2012 17:13 To: Neil

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
Will, here is a clue that applies to TPB from your own link. Distributing a large enough number of copies to have a noticeable effect on the business of the copyright owner -- Neil J. McRae. n...@domino.org From: Will Hargrave [w...@harg.net] Sent: 01

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Aled Morris
On 1 May 2012 21:51, Adrian Kennard uk...@e.gg wrote: Oh, I know. But are we enough of a voice to cause sanity to prevail? No; as Thomas pointed out... Lobbies are stopped by other lobbies. Time to lobby Aled

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread William Anderson
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Paul Cairney paul.cair...@eu.equinix.com wrote: (Please excuse the From: line, the folowing diartibe is mostly my personal oppinion) If only there was some sort of legal entity who could lobby on behalf of the views that consensous of this list has concluded

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Steve Dyer
On 01/05/2012 23:35, William Anderson wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Paul Cairney paul.cair...@eu.equinix.com wrote: (Please excuse the From: line, the folowing diartibe is mostly my personal oppinion) If only there was some sort of legal entity who could lobby on behalf of the