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

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From: ghio@netcom.com (Matthew Ghio)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: dc593ea6e326057b9dea135f5f4b836fcd5b7cc8426a8067ccf22534f5c28ad5
Message ID: <199601020708.XAA23044@netcom15.netcom.com>
Reply To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960102000200.10683A-100000@use.usit.net>
UTC Datetime: 1996-01-02 09:34:07 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 17:34:07 +0800

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From: ghio@netcom.com (Matthew Ghio)
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 17:34:07 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Another Internet Provider Censors Access (fwd)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960102000200.10683A-100000@use.usit.net>
Message-ID: <199601020708.XAA23044@netcom15.netcom.com>
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>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.

Can you say B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T ???

Man, this place is like a bunch of guerilla fighters preparing for war.
People are really on edge.  Make one wrong move and everybody starts
shooting.  I'm afraid that sooner or later it could be real bullets too.

BTW, Netcom splits its newsfeed between two servers.  Currently the
netcom.*, comp.*, and rec.* are all on one, and everything else is on the
other, although they move them around every few months.  Occasionally one
or the other server starts acting up, causing the respective heirarchies
to be temporarily inaccessable.

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