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Dropbox at work: The proxy server is refusing connections

They're just blocking the whole domain.

(Edit for those of you who think I'm just trolling for effect. I work at a LARGE fortune 500 (think 250,000 people) and http://www.dropbox.com/ is blocked at the proxy. If your company is going to offer business services, to, hum, businesses, one should insure that one should be accessible from businesses, no?)

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Okay, I'll take the bait:

Yes, companies should be able to use the product. How is that at all related to your point? Your company blocks the domain, how is that in Dropbox's control?

Do you shut off your router and whine about how you should be able to use GitHub if they plan to make money?

You do understand that it's the IT department at the Fortune 500 company thats doing the blocking, right?

Dropbox has no control over your IT department, any more than you'd have control over my wireless internet.

And the question becomes: why is this IT department blocking the dropbox service?

Exactly.. some businesses are just not friendly to the idea of automatic synchronization of their very private data to a 3rd party.

For the same reason a lot of companies block USB ports on company computers: so you don't take work material without their knowledge.

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