The last week, I have been trying to get permissions from some photographers in mainland China for usage of their photos. 10% of the requests I have made so far are simply just ignored (I have never got any rejection mail), so I did not care much about not getting any replies from them untill I found out articles regarding that Flickr is banned in mainland China. http://mashable.com/2007/06/08/flickr-ban-in-china/ http://www.isaacmao.com/meta/2007/06/flickrs-almost-banned-in-china.html I also tried yahoo mail but the latter article says that it is banned too. Does any one succeed sending any Flickr mail or yahoo mail to mainland China lately?