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PING is running a censorship towards users critical of their services

#554
From: Gabor.Barna
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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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>
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Organization: No more Ping!
Newsgroups: be.providers,be.burgerrechten,be.comp,be.comp.internet,be.misc,be.commercial