Another Internet Provider Censors Access (fwd)

[Brad Dolan]

Gulp.

Sorry.

That's the last time I believe anybody with a name like "Y."

bd

On Tue, 2 Jan 1996, Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin] wrote:

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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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