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Article #554PING is running a censorship towards users critical of their services
From: Gabor.Barna
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 00:00
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Yesterday I posted a number of messages to ping.users and ping.support. These messages were obviously not favorable to Ping since they were protests against Ping's illegal, anti-commercial and outrageous new "management style" and behavior towards their own customers. I already suspected Ping to monitor their specific newsgroup to bloc messages that were critical of themselves, since there were messages I wrote that I didn't see in the newsgroup and the total amount of messages to be found in there were varying according to the favorable or unfavorable wave towards Ping. Now I have the definite confirmation that Ping is running a dictatorial censorship of their newsgroup, because this morning I tried to post a message to the following newsgroups: ping.users,ping.support,be.providers,be.burgerrechten,be.comp, be.comp.internet,be.misc,be.commercial and the messages went out to all these newsgroup except for ping.users and ping.support where I received an error message to the effect that I do not have posting access anymore to ping.users and ping.support! A bon entendeur, salut! P.S 1. I am sending this post as well, separately, to several Ping users. If you also find these new management practices of Ping outrageous, please forward this text to ping.users and ping.support, unless they have now declared a massive censorship of the whole newsgroup. If you haven't yet read my grievance against Ping in the newsgroups, I'll be glad to forward you a copy. P.S. 2: I'll only be reading from the email address below on Monday, my Gabor.Barna@ping.be account being illegally and abusively blocked by Ping. P.S.3: note to the clueless Ping management: if you want to reach me before Monday, you can always try at the Gabor.Barna@ping.be address, since I am checking from time to time if you got back to your senses and re-opened the account. Gabor.Barna@dg8.cec.be
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b281,2fee949c27853083,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10b281,public X-Google-Thread: 111c4c,2fee949c27853083,start X-Google-Attributes: gid111c4c,public X-Google-Thread: f4ad3,2fee949c27853083,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf4ad3,public X-Google-Thread: 105c73,2fee949c27853083,start X-Google-Attributes: gid105c73,public X-Google-Thread: f7e61,2fee949c27853083,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf7e61,public X-Google-Thread: fce68,2fee949c27853083,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfce68,public From: Gabor.Barna@dg8.cec.be Subject: PING is running a censorship towards users critical of their services Date: 1997/04/12 Message-ID: <33577cb8.148216304@news.arcadis.be> X-Deja-AN: 234315887 Organization: No more Ping! Newsgroups: be.providers,be.burgerrechten,be.comp,be.comp.internet,be.misc,be.commercial