Another Internet Provider Censors Access (fwd)

[Harry Bartholomew]

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> Another shoe drops?
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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.
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    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