From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 02:08:40 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: "German service cuts Net access" (to Santa Cruz)
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At 5:07 PM 1/28/96, Mike McNally wrote:
>Timothy C. May writes:
> > "Deutsche Telekom, Germany's national phone company, blocked its 1 million
> > customers Thursday from gaining access to Internet "Web sites" maintained
> > by customers of Web Communications of Santa Cruz.
>
>I have this urge to e-mail Deutche Telekom the output of an
>appropriate AltaVista query so they can make sure none of that nasty
>stuff is reaching impressionable German adults & children.

It's interesting that some of the first things to pop up with a AV search
of "Webcom AND Zundel" were instructions posted in one of German groups
about how to bypass the access restrictions...

[Actually, I just tried this search again, and didn't find the messages.
Maybe I am misremembering I did last night, or maybe....]

A Usenet message claims that Deutsche Bank is on the same Web server (?)
and cannot access some of its customers. Whatever the precise truth of
this, a side effect of countries trying to disconnect themselves from Bad
Thoughts is disruption of commerce. This may provoke a bigger reaction than
all of our protests and civil liberties points.

--Tim


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