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

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From: Xanlithe
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article <jbtoacf.-0707960850350001@ip93-106.tor.interlog.com>, 
jbtoacf.@interlog.com says...
>
>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.

	Since these deleted groups contain nothing in the title that is 
illegal, and nothing in the content that is demonstrably illegal, your 
thankfulness is short-sighted. This was a political/moral decision, not a 
legal one. So that means that your favourite group/activity on the net may be 
curtailed at any time, without your knowledge or consent. How thankful will 
you be then? 
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From: jay@inforamp.net (Xanlithe)
Subject: Re: iStar memo:  don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
Date: 1996/07/15
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