I just ran into this with Excite yesterday... apparently they are doing something similar to AOL where co-located boxes are blocked. They do bounce the messages and it gives a URL where you can contact them if you're so inclined.
The message you get back looks like this...
Reason: Service unavailable; Client host [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] blocked using dynablock.excite.com; Your message could not be delivered due to complaints we received regarding the IP address you're using or your ISP. See http://blackholes.excite.com/
It's interesting to me that this would come up this week. The Dayton Hamvention which is this weekend where I'll be spending a large amount of time. According to the promoters, it's the largest show of it's kind in the world.
I worked at a Relay center for deaf and hard of hearing for a year with 2 blind guys. It was really quite impressive to see them talking and typing on their braille keyboards. They were doing the job just as well, if not better than, many of the seeing people.
Of course, it was mainly a text based system which is much easier to use for the blind as has been stated.
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I just ran into this with Excite yesterday ... apparently they are doing something similar to AOL where co-located boxes are blocked. They do bounce the messages and it gives a URL where you can contact them if you're so inclined.
The message you get back looks like this...
Reason: Service unavailable; Client host [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] blocked using
dynablock.excite.com; Your message could not be delivered due to complaints
we received regarding the IP address you're using or your ISP. See
http://blackholes.excite.com/
It's interesting to me that this would come up this week. The Dayton Hamvention which is this weekend where I'll be spending a large amount of time. According to the promoters, it's the largest show of it's kind in the world.
"il8n" is shorthand for the word internationalization. In this context, making KDE and Gnome work for the parts of the world that don't speak English.
I worked at a Relay center for deaf and hard of hearing for a year with 2 blind guys. It was really quite impressive to see them talking and typing on their braille keyboards. They were doing the job just as well, if not better than, many of the seeing people.
Of course, it was mainly a text based system which is much easier to use for the blind as has been stated.
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