From: Pallas Anonymous Remailer <athena@cyberpass.net>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 06:57:10 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Orwell
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Some US ISP's were seized in a cyberporn bust.

Dreamscape's statement at:

http://www.dreamscape.com/dream98/statement.htm

Buffnet's at:

http://www.buffnet.com/ag/

Vacco's at:

http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/oct98/oct28_98.html

All three worth reading. This could be a big story. The theory against
the ISPs (not that they've been charged with a crime) is that they
knowingly carried the newsgroups:

alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.early-teen

This has broader application -- alt.binaries.warez.*,
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3, etc.

Is any ISP which carries suspect newsgroups at risk of having 
its equiptment seized, and who draws up the blacklist of 
newsgroups?

Or worse, is there no public blacklist at all -- just the
hovering fear of an up-for-reelection AG swooping down. And when
do naughty pictures start showing up in alt.fan.disney? And
what's the AG's move then?