Zippo censors are losing customers

Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM dlv at bwalk.dm.com
Sun Jan 11 08:07:31 PST 1998



"Dr. Jai Maharaj" <jai at mantra.com> writes:

> > From: Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM <dlv at bwalk.dm.com>
> >
> >Zippo is now censoring more people besides Colin.  It may sound cheap
> >but it's not worth $19/year.
>
> Now many discussion threads (not spam) are missing from DejaNews also.
> They claim to be using "technology" developed by Zippo -- the following
> press release is located at:

It sounds like dejanews is applying nocem on spool, and also applying old
nocems to their historical databases. (Does that include chris lewis's
"trollcancels"?)

Zippo refuses to accept articles where the From: is one of the many people
they've blacklisted for content. See the recent article by Russ Allbery
on net.config where he promotes panix's patches to nntp for something similar.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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