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Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups

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From: Richard J. Sexton
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article <DuCMFL.62B@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>,
Chris Lewis <clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca> wrote:
>In article <4s15h5$4ct@gold.interlog.com>,
>Richard Sexton <richard@interlog.com> wrote:
>>In article <4s11lq$rml@thoth.portal.ca>, Karl Pollak <kpollak@portal.ca> wrote:
>>>lalee@vcn.bc.ca (Lawrence Lee) wrote:
>
>>>Show me any other ISP in Canada that carry the newsgroups that were
>>>mentioned in this thread.  I seriously doubt you will find one.
>
>>Duh. Just how wrong can you be in one posting? Most of the 96 ISP's
>>in Toronto advertise "ALL Newsgroups! UNcensored!!".
>
>>Double duh.
>
>They can advertise that as much as they want, but you know as well as I do
>that it's a transparently false claim.


You've lost me there, Chris.

Please explain.
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From: richard@news.vrx.net (Richard J. Sexton)
Subject: Re: iStar memo:  don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
Date: 1996/07/10
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