From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 02:34:14 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Compuserve *hasn't* banned newsgroups
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960103180226.006a9ffc@panix.com>
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At 05:30 PM 1/3/96 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
>   If you do this, you'll find out very quickly just how empty (or at
>least how slippery) slogans like "the Internet routes around censorship"
>are: if your efforts pay off and you steer even a fraction of CIS's
>traffic toward the remaining open newsservers, they'll close faster than
>you can say "alt." So before you do it, think about how the net will route
>around sysops closing their servers off from the net.
>
>Hieronymous

You mean that the thirty-some odd open news servers listed on
http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~jwa/open-sites.html might get swamped.  Then the
CIS refugees will be forced to pay Sameer the massive $12.50 (?) a month for
a net-access-only account and read off of c2.org's server.  (Or any of the
thousands of sites worldwide one can open a shell account on.)

DCF