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January 13, 2009

IT Department Blocking Access to IEC Journal?

One IEC member reports:

Beginning a couple weeks ago, my government computer no longer lets me visit the IEC website.  When I try to do so, my computer says:  “You are explicitly denied access to this website "http://www.iecjournal.org/" per local base policy..  Your request was denied because of its content categorization:  Blogs/Personal Pages.”   The good news is that I can still access the site from home.


Another IEC member had the same problem a few years ago. Some unsophisticated automated screening software occasionally identifies the IEC Journal as inappropriate for use on government computers. Similar automated software could also erroneously erase IEC Journal RSS feed e-mail echoes as spam. If you draw either type of error to the attention of a human being in your organization's IT department, they will usually correct the mistake rapidly. If they don't, you should raise the problem to their supervisor.

Of course, IEC members who have been improperly blocked won't be able to read this message, so please draw this solution to the attention of any colleagues you know who have been having problems.

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