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Article #121Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
From: jbtoacf. J. Brian Taylor
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article <4rmsbp$5ur@insight.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, djones@insight.mcmaster.ca (David Jones) wrote: > Canada's iStar-Internet service providers, including Inforamp > (at www.inforamp.net), have just pulled the plug on certain > controversial newsgroups. > > Many Inforamp customers are miffed because, according to the following > internal memo, technical support were instructed *not* to tell customers > the list of banned newgroups - nor was any announcement made in the usual > "Message of the Day" to inform users about the decision. Aside from the issue of informing or not informing customers, on looking at the list of newsgroups pulled, I am immensely thankful for the decision taken by the administration to pull them. Brian Taylor.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11544f,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid11544f,public X-Google-Thread: 12c2cc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid12c2cc,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: fb1ea,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1ea,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d5,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d5,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public X-Google-Thread: 115882,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid115882,public X-Google-Thread: 13d6bc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid13d6bc,public From: jbtoacf.@interlog.com (J. Brian Taylor) Subject: Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups Date: 1996/07/07 Message-ID: <jbtoacf.-0707960850350001@ip93-106.tor.interlog.com> X-Deja-AN: 164139318 distribution: inet references: <4rmsbp$5ur@insight.dcss.mcmaster.ca> organization: InterLog Internet Services newsgroups: inforamp.general,inforamp.support,alt.censorship,comp.org.eff.talk,can.legal,can.infohighway,tor.general,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,alt.society.civil-liberty,ont.general