[91617] in Cypherpunks
Re: mail2news gateway (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Ghio)
Tue Dec 9 02:59:10 1997
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 17:58:44 -0500
From: ghio@temp0170.myriad.ml.org (Matthew Ghio)
To: Alex de Joode <usura@sabotage.org>
In-Reply-To: <199712082217.XAA03959@basement.replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, remailer-operators@anon.lcs.mit.edu
Cc: mix-l@jpunix.com
Reply-To: ghio@temp0170.myriad.ml.org (Matthew Ghio)
Someone wrote to usura:
>
> For the past several weeks, a right wing extremist group in Topeka,
> Kansas has been tampering with mail2news gateways, including yours,
> to prevent several people who oppose their hate agenda from posting
> to the usenet through your gateway.
>
> The affected gateways include at least alt.revisionism, alt.christnet,
> alt.politics.homosexuality and alt.abortion. Posts are returned "user
> unknown" suggesting that the mailbox may have been deleted.
>
> This is a group of *fanatics* (Westboro Baptist Church) whose website
> godhatesfags.com may be known to you. They also operate several other
> websites under aliases the best-known of which is revwhite.bestsites.net.
> They advocate murdering abortion clinic workers, homosexuals and blacks.
[snip]
Yeah, I get email from these idiots every couple of weeks. Every time
this guy's news server disk gets full and drops a post, or bounces an
email, he thinks someone is censoring him. Just ignore it.
