cryptoanarchy.wiki

Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!

1996-01-02 - Re: Another Internet Provider Censors Access (fwd)

Header Data

From: bart@netcom.com (Harry Bartholomew)
To: bdolan@use.usit.net (Brad Dolan)
Message Hash: 786c185e819f6a7256ca3fa3f731385687c8875d7f08312f81ce96d636f7ac9c
Message ID: <199601020708.XAA23593@netcom22.netcom.com>
Reply To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960102000200.10683A-100000@use.usit.net>
UTC Datetime: 1996-01-02 09:34:35 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 17:34:35 +0800

Raw message

From: bart@netcom.com (Harry Bartholomew)
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 17:34:35 +0800
To: bdolan@use.usit.net (Brad Dolan)
Subject: Re: Another Internet Provider Censors Access (fwd)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960102000200.10683A-100000@use.usit.net>
Message-ID: <199601020708.XAA23593@netcom22.netcom.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 
> Another shoe drops?
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>  
> Under the guise of a minor software upgrade, Netcom has changed 
> its newsgroups access list to totally exclude "alt" groups 
> altogether.  Since there is no way to sign up for a newsgroup 
> other than via the selection menu that Netcom provides, it 
> appears that Netcom has managed to censor access to all those 
> discussion groups.
>  
    Not entirely.  From my shell account I just used Tin to view and
    subscribe to alt.sex and several others without a problem.
    Perhaps the above is true of their browser (NetCruiser) accounts?

    Bart

Thread