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[Kyle Williams]

Thank you for reporting this.  Interesting to say the least.
I'll try this when I get home to see if the results are the same.




On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Roy Lanek <lanek at novenine.com> wrote:

>    504 Connect to existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com:80 failed:
>    Connection timed out
>
>    The following error occurred while trying to access
>
>    http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/04/bushs-conspiracy-to- \
>    create-american_15.html: etc.
>
>    [note, I was looking for: Bush's Conspiracy to Create an American
> Police
>    State: Part II]
>
>    Generated Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:51:07 WIT by Polipo on xxx:yyy.
>
>
> while, e.g., a connection done within the same window of time to
>
>    http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/index.html
>
> is immediately, successfully serviced.
>
> Okay, now the magic: using tor, I can read the article sought.
>
> Recapitulating:
>
>    tor down => 504 Connect to existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com:80 failed
>    with other sites being available, of course
>
>    tor up => http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
>              shows up
>
>    purge the caches/whatever [polipo, tor, browser], etc.
>
>    repeat
>
> Notice the REPEAT ... I have done it a couple of times, the last one at,
>
>    504 etc.
>    Generated Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:36:54 WIT by Polipo on xxx:yyy
>
>    with no tor
>
>    success with tor
>
> And notice that I have experienced the same with other ... how to say?,
> non-mainstream/non-flat EEG sources of info too [today here, there;
> tomorrow
> in a third place etc.]. Indeed it's my main, so far only, reason to use
> tor
> [there is no risk to reveal anything to the *watchers*, this is a *secret*
> that belongs to the family of Polcinello ones].
>
> To let us understand, another site which I can only reach via tor at times
> is
> voltairenet.org, a VERY HIGH quality source of info.
>
> I hope it clarifies also the thing of the 'zero-knowledge' of above
> better.
>
> Cheers,
>
> /Roy
> --
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> SSSSS . s l a c k w a r e  SSSSSS   belalang--where there are no eagles, I
> am
> SSSSS +------------ linux  SSSSSS   the one, said the grasshopper [where's
> no
> SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS   top dogs, underdogs will be seen as
> one]
>
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