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

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From: Scott Barker
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 00:00
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On Mon, 22 Jul 1996 03:38:36 GMT, Chris Lewis (clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca) wrote:
> Is iStar your only feed?

Yes (via Enernet).

> And, if there really are articles in those groups, are they cross-posted to
> other less flagrantly named groups?

No. (BTW, we're not talking about the iSTAR-banned groups, but other groups
which should also have been banned, based on iSTAR's reasoning).

> iStar could be passing articles in those groups through to you without the
> groups existing (via the junk group, or crossposting), or the articles being
> visible to their users.  They may not even have noticed.

True...

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From: scott@galileo.cuug.ab.ca (Scott Barker)
Subject: Re: iStar memo:  don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
Date: 1996/07/22
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