[46268] in Cypherpunks
Re: Another Internet Provider Censors Access (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harry Bartholomew)
Tue Jan 2 02:45:24 1996
From: bart@netcom.com (Harry Bartholomew)
To: bdolan@use.usit.net (Brad Dolan)
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 23:08:16 -0800 (PST)
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
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> Another shoe drops?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
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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.
>
Not entirely. From my shell account I just used Tin to view and
subscribe to alt.sex and several others without a problem.
Perhaps the above is true of their browser (NetCruiser) accounts?
Bart
