00/7/15 I'm told this is a reasonable Arabic translation of this entire site.

00/6/25 I've unsubscribed from proxy-methods. My inflexible objection to censorship has caused this, but I can't do anything about that - it's why I'm active in this area anyway.

00/6/22 It looks like I might be banned from posting on the proxy-methods list! Anyway, there's another one I will spend my time on. proxy-elites@egroups.com. I hate the name, but I didn't choose it; it's not even appropriate (same as proxy-methods). It appears many are subscribing to both.

00/5/18 Internet access from the UAE was almost completely open from late 15/5 to sometime on 17/5. It looks like they had a major network meltdown and were forced to allow uncensored/unblocked access while they fixed it. It's all back and blocking again now.

00/4/24 Heh. Now you can buy funding for your e-gold account on ebay. Bid for e-gold and pay via credit card at buypoint.

00/3/31 Added Aseef's page to describe the setup and use of Craig's Alstone proxy for the UAE (and probably others).

00/2/10 The UAE blocked a few more proxies by IP source address in the last few days. noproxy.com addresses, in particular. Including the name servers. Added a list of known addresses blocked to the blocked ports list. Additions/corrections welcome.

00/1/28 Added the Why am I doing this page. My soapbox. Comments welcome, as usual.

00/1/24 Take a look at the page donated by Aseef about a newbies experience getting an ssh -R technique working on a free nether.net account. This should encourage newbies everywhere. He's done a really good job here, and I thank him for it. In fact, it makes the rest of my site look bad - damn.

00/1/5 The old mailing list is gone, but there's a new mailing list for you to subscribe to (see below).

There's a free external shell account for you to use (thanks IK), so there is no reason at all to need proxies on special ports! It's as easy to use as the paid-for ones, but a little less reliable and probably not forever. Good to use to get some experience, with a view to paying for something more permanent later.

Above I've linked to the details of setting up external ISP accounts to do your own 'proxies'. I'll be putting more effort into handling support for these accounts than in finding and testing proxies. Try it - you can make a proxy for anything (web browsing, usenet news, email etc.).

There's a new mailing list you should subscribe to. It's just email, so it should never be blocked; it should always be the best source of information about evading censorship. Here are the archives (or a threaded version) and main page. Subscribe via email or web. When my (this) site gets blocked, that's one list I'm sure to send the new URL to.

I get email from people who have trouble with english, and I want to help, but sometimes it's difficult. Maybe I need to put some Arabic or Chinese pages here - I'll try this if anyone wants it. Mail me (if you can read this!) and think it would be useful. Maybe you could send a jpeg with instructions in the right characters to give people a clue about how to interpret some of the stuff here.

There seems to be a lot of people wanting information (that is ... work!) from me. I really don't have the time, but I'll be happier to do it in a good cause. My current "cause" is to promote the use of true ecash on the Internet, so ...

Donate $0.01 and I'll provide free support via email ... even if that simply means sending you a link to an "unblocked" version of this site. Donate $1 and I'll be your friend forever (on second thought, this should probably be a $0.00.5 option :-)). Pay to my account at e-gold.

Set up your own account, fill it with e-metal and then transfer some to me. It's very easy to set this up - the hard part is filling it with e-metal! You need to wire money (expensive), or send a draft (takes weeks from the UAE, but it does get there). No credit card payment option to pay them, unfortunately; maybe I should offer this service (appropriately anonymously) - waddaya think? 00/4/1 Oops, too late, others are already making the money: goldnow