From: Jon Lasser <jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 04:09:54 +0800
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: new(?) anti-usenet censorship technique?
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Playing around online today, it occured to me that much of Compu$pend's 
subscribers (and many other ISPs, especially smaller ones which might be 
subject to governmental pressures) rely largely on people who use chat 
modes frequently, often for sex-related chat... they cannot cut off IRC 
(for example) without hurting their income substantially.

If someone put up an IRC<->news gateway, with a bot that allowed anyone 
on channel to read newsgroups, it'd be virtually impossible to censor; 
one could use a variable channel name to increase the difficulty of 
censoring it.

Has anyone done this before? Or talked about it?
Jon Lasser
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