Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TPgHl-0007BE-AD for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:08:45 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from nm35-vm4.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com ([98.138.229.100]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) id 1TPgHk-0002kF-Pz for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:08:45 +0000 Received: from [98.138.226.178] by nm35.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Oct 2012 21:08:39 -0000 Received: from [98.138.226.125] by tm13.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Oct 2012 21:08:39 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp204.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Oct 2012 21:08:39 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 487291.51607.bm@smtp204.mail.ne1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: WA_p4RwVM1kTGWldnDWn0h6lsE696.FJHult0mgUgp_V1Mr HumBCp8cYufUGwJKHldkOvpbm8nEEZ.5r.Mr2rCWnN10h2epWdPmRKLscJi3 NTH.dG1WskwSqGTTVxSnXrCYxIdq6sAfZLuVgmpFa_r7_fTO8gsZmVpf.Oc4 ajXIir6P_QSaclOXCdeOmb4osQKDNsWUY4yk65VfpFMS3B3tkYchBp4SGN5N X9JdDoicE5PUsI.0LMpKLir6QozzlgzA3HXLe1IYoBLEcadT5AXChdRv.Clk iWXERd.SWk2monH_biGJwHMtq4VjTn4zE8gARzcQPbV8f2EN8V91U08lvtqu jLh4.fcdr_eh_ICjsK3hEpPJFtQyhBIG6SVyJfdkLx4zSeeTYWKm3CV62_NG pyY5reNeNna67u8phDeO_tp3ielUbvs88KhP.U5V2pHj1UOMXNK.xndFBQEl ygrFieC6qLOuA0M8urDtE X-Yahoo-SMTP: sKPs_DuswBCbwqNlfpCw67sItaWlObM9nAyWwA-- Received: from [10.0.0.184] (mark.lister@41.240.198.141 with plain) by smtp204.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Oct 2012 14:08:39 -0700 PDT Message-ID: <508312D3.70309@yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 23:08:35 +0200 From: Mark Lister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net References: <50826AE4.7030004@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <50826AE4.7030004@yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.5 X-Forwarded-Message-Id: <50826AE4.7030004@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -0.5 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no trust [98.138.229.100 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (mark.lister[at]yahoo.com) -0.4 RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1TPgHk-0002kF-Pz Subject: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Re: Hosting of compiled bitcoin client X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:08:45 -0000 >I don't think it's related to these sanctions but to the Great Firewall of China, but sourceforge downloads are also blocked in China. Also quite easy to bypass though. I think it's easy to overestimate the problem. Users in these countries (even non technical ones) quickly learn how to bypass hurdles in the network. Although it would be great to host downloads on neutral territory it might also be sufficient to provide the SHA256 of a malware free binary...