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

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From: Keith Medcalf
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 00:00
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In <jbtoacf.-0707960850350001@ip93-106.tor.interlog.com>, jbtoacf.@interlog.com (J. Brian Taylor) writes:
>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.

>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.

If you don't like it, change the channel.  Surely you can figure out
that you would not like to take part in these newsgroups, and are
therefore capable of controlling you wimpy little slug self into staying
OUT of them.

Fortunately, this is the beginning of the end of iStar.  Now that they
have re-classified themselves as PUBLISHERS rather than simply as
common-carriers, they are a prime target for legal action.  I may even
open an account myself.  I could stand to make $10 million, just for
being "offended", and iStar has taken appropriate action to ensure that
I am protected from inadverdant "offence".

Of course, this was really an recommendation made by the "lawyers" in
the finest of Canadian Tradition and in the same manner as that smarmy
Criminal Enterprise known as the Government of Canada:  Ensuring lots of
work and self continuation into the future, and fuck anyone who wants
anything except a fat paycheck for the politicians/lawyers, with massive
Golden Parachute pensions to boot; and let the vassal serfs eat shit!
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From: kmedcalf@dessus.com   (Keith Medcalf)
Subject: Re: iStar memo:  don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
Date: 1996/07/08
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