Another Internet Provider Censors Access (fwd)

[Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]]

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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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