p2p news / p2pnet: Thousands of overseas US Navy and Marine Corps personnel are having serious email problems, and it’s not because of difficulties within the likes of Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, Google.

Commercial email services from these and similar companies have been locked out of overseas government computers and this also affects base libraries and liberty centers connected to an official government network, says Stars & Stripes.

“This concerns us, because so many of our patrons won’t be able to access their e-mail, and many come to the library to do just that,” the story has Ciro Giordano, supervisory librarian at Naval Support Activity Naples, Italy, saying.

Not only but also, as a Slyck submission points out, it also means, “Some Peer2Mail users may be forced to find another file sharing method.”

With Ran Geva’s Peer2Mail, if you have a web mail account such as Gmail (Google Mail), Walla!, Yahoo, and so on, you can use P2M to store files on it/them.

But, Stars & Stripes has Neal Miller, a senior plans and policy manager with Naval Network Warfare Command in Norfolk, Virginia, saying access to such services leaves the unclassified government network too susceptible to hackers and computer viruses,.

The policy covers sailors, Marines and DOD employees and contractors using Navy Department computers, and applies to those downrange who operate on Navy computer systems and hits Navy and Marine Corps personnel attached to Army, Air Force or joint combatant commands fall under those services’ policies.

“People still can take care of personal business using their unclassified work e-mail accounts, within reason, and only if work schedules permit,” says the story. “The Navy assigns all sailors and Marines an official, unclassified e-mail address, which they can use to communicate with family and friends.”

The block was effective Oct. 12 for computers on ships and most of the computers using the Navy-Marine Corps intranet servers in the United States.

“There are some Navy and Marine Corps bases where Morale, Welfare and Recreation operates its own servers or networks and won’t be affected by the blockage,” Miller adds the story. “Other bases – such as Naples – don’t have that luxury.”

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See:-
Stars & Stripes – Navy, Marines block commercial e-mail sites , October 19, 2005
Ran Geva’s Peer2Mail – Do-it-yourself p2p, April 11, 2005

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