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Article #122Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
From: Alain Goyette
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 00:00
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jbtoacf.@interlog.com (J. Brian Taylor) wrote: >In article <4rmsbp$5ur@insight.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, >djones@insight.mcmaster.ca (David Jones) wrote: >> Canada's iStar-Internet service providers, including Inforamp >> (at www.inforamp.net), have just pulled the plug on certain >> controversial newsgroups. >> >> Many Inforamp customers are miffed because, according to the following >> internal memo, technical support were instructed *not* to tell customers >> the list of banned newgroups - nor was any announcement made in the usual >> "Message of the Day" to inform users about the decision. >Aside from the issue of informing or not informing customers, on looking >at the list of newsgroups pulled, I am immensely thankful for the decision >taken by the administration to pull them. >Brian Taylor. I for one think that the list they pulled was crap but, it is a sorry state we are getting into when others can decide for you what it is that you can do, think, like or dislike. Alain
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11544f,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid11544f,public X-Google-Thread: 12c2cc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid12c2cc,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: fb1ea,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1ea,public X-Google-Thread: 115882,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid115882,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d5,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d5,public X-Google-Thread: 13d6bc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid13d6bc,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public From: alaing@intranet.ca (Alain Goyette) Subject: Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups Date: 1996/07/07 Message-ID: <4ro8na$du@news.intranet.ca> X-Deja-AN: 167265416 distribution: inet references: <4rmsbp$5ur@insight.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <jbtoacf.-0707960850350001@ip93-106.tor.interlog.com> organization: Intranet Technologies 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