[46260] in Cypherpunks
Re: Another Internet Provider Censors Access (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin])
Tue Jan 2 01:34:50 1996
From: "Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]" <erc@dal1820.computek.net>
To: bdolan@use.usit.net (Brad Dolan)
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 00:15:15 -0600 (CST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960102000200.10683A-100000@use.usit.net> from "Brad Dolan" at Jan 2, 96 00:02:44 am
Reply-To: ecarp@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.
Really? A quick check shows that alt. groups, even the alt.sex.* groups,
are still in /usr/lib/news/active, and articles are still in
/usr/spool/news/alt/sex/*.
Whoever supplied that information is apparently wrong.
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