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Re: They took away my LUGNET
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:52:22 GMT
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OUCH!
They took away yahoo, hotmail, and all the other web-based e-mail from my
company, but fortunately, they haven't blocked lugnet or e-bay just yet...
keeping my fingers crossed.
One other solution (if you don't have an ISDN phone like I do..) Got a
personal laptop? bring it to your work desk and use your phone line and
dial into you local ISP...it also blocks your lines from pesky calls, too!!
(joke!!)
-Scott Lyttle
In lugnet.general, James Trobaugh writes:
> I got to work this morning and was ready to catch up on last night's LUGNET
> post while I had my morning Dr. Pepper and what do I find out?! My company's
> proxy server is now blocking "web chatting" sites, basicly all news servers
> (plus internet auction sites)! They've always blocked game sites, adult
> sites and a few others, but this blocking of news server sites is awful.
> What will I do all day not knowing what is going on in the LEGO world?!
>
> I did send an email in protest and made up some pretty lame reasons why I
> need to access news.lugnet.com, so we'll see if they buy it.
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> A co-worker has ofter to set me up an account on an off site server that he
> runs where I connect to it via the web and can browse out to where ever I
> want, so I'll have to see how that works. Of course they'll probally figure
> that one out some day and block access to it also.
>
> Well for now I'll have to get my LUGNET fix before I go to work.
>
> jt
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| I got to work this morning and was ready to catch up on last night's LUGNET post while I had my morning Dr. Pepper and what do I find out?! My company's proxy server is now blocking "web chatting" sites, basicly all news servers (plus internet (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jun-02, to lugnet.general)
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