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

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From: Robert Radford
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article <4ro8na$du@news.intranet.ca>, alaing@intranet.ca (Alain
Goyette) wrote: 
> I for one think that the list they pulled was crap but, it is a sorry
> state we are getting into when others can decide for you what it is
> that you can do, think, like or dislike.

You seem to miss the point that iStar are operating under the quite
reasonable assumption that the banned newsgroups are illegal under
existing Canadian law which applies to any sort of publication whether
electronic or paper. There is nothing new in the law. You are merely
noticing it now.

-- 
Robert Radford
V-P, Research & Development
Radhome Corporation
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From: radfordr@inforamp.net (Robert Radford)
Subject: Re: iStar memo:  don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
Date: 1996/07/08
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