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Steve Price (steve@stevepr.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> 
> Could demon filter out all news from anon sources?

Yes. Whether "filtering" anything is practical is another matter.
> 
> Advantages-
> 
> 1. you will not see any posting that the sender was not prepared to put
> thier name on.
> 
> This would allow demon to put the blame for any dodgy postings onto the
> sender.
> 
> 2. Demon would not have to blanket ban any newsgroup.
> 
> 3. If an individual wanted an uncensored feed, it is possible to use
> `nntp addserver`.

Eh? Not only is this statement platform specific (and if you did have a
command called nntp on certain platforms the ` would have a strange effect)
but it's also nonsensical. Which server would we "add", remember that like
demon all the other ISPs would have also censored their feeds.
> 
> Disadvantages-
> 
> 1. It is still censorship.
> 
> 2. It would make life difficult for people who wanted to use anon
> services, eg self help groups, Sally Ann, Samaritans, Political
> statements from more oppressed people.

More than "difficult", a lot of them could not participate.
> 
> 3. It is relativly easy to fake a header to say more or less what you
> want.

s/relatively easy/bloody simple/

And of course the main disadvantage, it just wouldn't work.
> 
> I do think that the anon mail servers do play an important part in
> usenet but on the other hand, there are people who abuse the service by
> using it to send material that is illegal in most parts of the world.

So you haven't been following the arguments very closely then, you just
read the filthy rag and believed the lies. The anon server mentioned in
it does not allow the posting of binaries...

d.i.s and d.n removed from Followups yet again. This is _not_ a support issue.

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