> > > xxx xxx wrote:
> > >
> > > Subject: Please unblock this site.
> > > Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 11:53:05 +0400
> > > From: xxx xxx <xxx@emirates.net.ae>
> > > To: help@emirates.net.ae
> > >
> > > The following is an image and retreival site for hotmail.com
> > > Please remove it from the Proxy Control list.
> > >
> > > http://209.185.130.251/


> > yyy yyy wrote:
> >
> > Dear Sir,
> >
> > Your request to unblock IP 209.185.111.226 could be processed only if 
> > it is found this web-site does not serve any unnecessary content.
> > http://209.185.111.226/ does not give directory listing and hence 
> > it is not possible to identify what content it serves. Moreover, 
> > your request suggest that this is a hotmail site, but it does not sit 
> > into hotmail IP domain.
> > Please forward the complete URL in order to identify and exempt this site.
> >
> > Regards,
> > yyy yyy
> >


> xxx xxx wrote:
> 
> Dear Sir,
>
> To start with I did not request an unblock of the site http://209.185.111.226/
> but of http://209.185.130.251/  as you can see from the attached thread of my
> email below.
>
> I didn't realise it was my responsibility to prove that a site needed unbanning.
> Even more incredible is that a site in the same IP range as the hotmail.com
> which as you must know belongs to mircrosoft.com, and whose images are used on
> www.hotmail.com needs repeated emails to get unblocked. This is an interesting
> new development on requesting a wrongly banned site from being unblocked.
>
> It is stated repeatedly by Emirates Internet that sites are blocked that contain
> material that, to quote the words of  public relations manager Ahmed Faisal Al
> Dosery, "Etisalat has been mandated to "mask" undesired sites, and in the
> process some sites may have been wrongly blocked. But, after complaints, these
> sites were unmasked. The proxy was put in place to block access to sites which
> contain immoral material which violates the religious, social and moral values
> of UAE society."
>
> Now you are saying sites will be blocked and we users have to prove to you that
> the site does not contain offensive material. This is an astounding development
> and you can expect it to be put into public discussion. We have to prove a site
> which we cannot access does not contain offensive material.
> And how are we supposed to do that may I ask?
>
> In the mean time, I have taken the time to do your work for you by putting some
> of the files accessed through this site below.
>
> http://209.185.130.251/c99.gif
> http://209.185.130.251/home_do_map.gif
> http://209.185.130.251/home_do_passwdret.gif
> http://209.185.130.251/home_lbldefault.gif
> http://209.185.130.251/home_lblframes.gif
> http://209.185.130.251/home_lbllogin.gif
> http://209.185.130.251/home_lblpasswd.gif
> http://209.185.130.251/home_lblreg2.gif
> http://209.185.130.251/logo_msnhm_lg.gif
> http://209.185.130.251/logo_msnhm_sm.gif
> http://209.185.130.251/logo_msnhm_smb.gif
> http://209.185.130.251/slogan_bl.gif
> http://209.185.130.251/spacer.gif
>
> I hope this will suffice.
>
> Sincerely.


Subject: Re: [Fwd: Please unblock this site.]
Date: Apr 1999
From: yyy yyy <yyy@emirates.net.ae>
To: xxx xxx <xxx@emirates.net.ae>
References: 1 , 2 , 3


Thank you for providing the necessary information about URLs.
The requested site is open now.

Regards,
yyy yyy