A more precise URL is http://www.cnet.com/Content/News/Files/0,16,2181,00.html. There's a link to a copy of the original letter. It looks like the UK police are coming down with delusions of grandeur; they want to eliminate the newsgroups in question from the Internet/Usenet period, not just block them from the UK. People may want to look out for cancel messages for these groups coming from the UK, for instance, and ignore the lot of them. -Allen From: IN%"m5@vail.tivoli.com" "Mike McNally" 16-AUG-1996 20:07:15.62 To: IN%"cypherpunks@toad.com" CC: Subj: c|net reports UK partial usenet ban UK Metropolitan Police Service bans smutty newsgroups. See it all at <http://www.cnet.com>. ______c_________________________________________________________________ Mike M Nally * Tiv^H^H^H IBM * Austin TX * For the time being, m5@tivoli.com * m101@io.com * <URL:http://www.io.com/~m101> * three heads and eight arms.