From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 17:24:21 -0800 (PST)
To: Firebeard <stend@sten.tivoli.com>
Subject: Re: "Why am I being completely censored"?
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At 03:47 PM 2/6/97 -0600, Firebeard wrote:
>>>>>> John Gilmore writes:
>
>JG> Hmm.  Your message that I just received, about this problem, was
>JG> cc'd to cypherpunks.  It did not make it into the
>JG> cypherpunks-unedited list.  In examining the message header
>JG> itself, there is an "Approved: yes" line.  My guess is that your
>JG> attempt to be too tricky has screwed you.
>
>	It appears that this was the problem.  Deal with a
>self-moderated newsgroup, and ent up with self-censorship.  *shrug*.
>I wish that John had helped to resolve the problem before I made it
>public, but that's life.

John does have other things to do with his time, you know :-)
If you're abusing email syntax to fake out specialized mail/news handling, 
you shouldn't be surprised if it doesn't always fake out the parts
of the system you were trying to fake out....



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