Navy, Marines block commercial e-mail sites

[Ernesto]

And it includes dependents like Patricia Rovito, 40, who after 10 months in Italy only recently got her home telephone turned on, let alone having Internet access.

“This is the only way I can check my e-mail,” she said, sitting at a library computer. “This is going to be a pretty sizable hit to morale. I understand the Navy has its concerns, but this is not going to be favorably accepted.”


http://stripes.com/article.asp?article=32347

[benburch]

1. What a NICE way to "support the troops"

Brainstorming time.

Can we come up with a way for these soldiers and sailors to get around that blockade?

[don954]

2. megaproxy.com

that is, if it isnt blocked too. You can also often signup and then get assigned a server that isnt known to the black-list.

[Oversea Visitor]

3. Dick say

"Use the email site we want and not the email site you like to have"

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. I have to admit, I have long wondered about how

the Navy could allow access like they had. I mean ship movements and especailly movements of Marine detachments are really not the kind of stuff that should be so easy to get like off email.

[MADem]

5. At sea, they turn off the phones and the net if anything is going down

And having that capability at ALL is an absolute LUXURY. It used to be you would pull into port, line up, and pay a buck a minute, or MORE, to phone home. Then they went to phone cards, and the price came down a bit. Now you can call and email underway.

That woman who waited ten months for a phone in Napoli had a lousy sponsor. You pay a small bribe, and you can have your phone in a day or two--I speak from experience. And the Italians had halfway decent dialup internet service years ago, I imagine they are up to speed with everyone else now. Do your business with the local economy, keep your business private and away from DOD eyes, why deal with the censors at all...

[trogdor]

6. OPSEC

They want everybody to have .mil email addresses so they can monitor what goes in and out.

[Roland99]

7. This way the military can monitor outgoing email and keep their dark

secrets secret.

[Tight_rope]

8. Trying to hide what's going on in the WH from the troops!

Yes your "Commander in Chimp" is in deep doodoo!

[JPZenger]

9. Businesses don't want personal email on their system

It is an interesting comparison. Businesses typically don't want employees putting personal email on their business system. Therefore, people use yahoo, etc. In comparison, the military is saying that you must put your personal email on the military email system, because the servicepersons are not allowed to access free commercial email accounts.

I wonder if this move also blocks message boards and groups from yahoo, etc.

This move certainly would make it easier for the military brass to watch over what is said by their service-persons. So much for free speech, if the military brass can read everything you send out.