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1997-08-06 - Re: Eternity Uncensorable?

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From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 1f9512cacb088544a36c51c7a04355eb6184ecf1bde18a2cf51d3d6934bde60c
Message ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.970807015433.102A-100000@shirley>
Reply To: <199708061308.OAA02171@server.test.net>
UTC Datetime: 1997-08-06 20:25:43 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 04:25:43 +0800

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From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 04:25:43 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Eternity Uncensorable?
In-Reply-To: <199708061308.OAA02171@server.test.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.970807015433.102A-100000@shirley>
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On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Adam Back wrote:

> Mark Grant <mark@unicorn.com> writes:

[...]

> > so all that a government need do to censor a particular site is to
> > scan for those messages and issue cancels.

> - I understand cancels are ignored a lot of places, due to problems with
>   censorous people, and pranksters issuing tons of forged cancels.

And alot like to use canceles.  If censorus groups (not neccery the
goverment) starts canceling we may be able to create a resector like that
used in news.admin.net-abuse.*

[...]

>   I don't have any figures for how widespread the practice of
>   configuring news to ignore cancels is.  

Most sites still hounder cancels,  a growing number ignore them (often for
preformence resons).

- -- 
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