From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 00:07:31 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Zippo censors are losing customers
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"Dr. Jai Maharaj" <jai@mantra.com> writes:

> > From: Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM <dlv@bwalk.dm.com>
> >
> >Zippo is now censoring more people besides Colin.  It may sound cheap
> >but it's not worth $19/year.
>
> Now many discussion threads (not spam) are missing from DejaNews also.
> They claim to be using "technology" developed by Zippo -- the following
> press release is located at:

It sounds like dejanews is applying nocem on spool, and also applying old
nocems to their historical databases. (Does that include chris lewis's
"trollcancels"?)

Zippo refuses to accept articles where the From: is one of the many people
they've blacklisted for content. See the recent article by Russ Allbery
on net.config where he promotes panix's patches to nntp for something similar.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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