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Re: Censorship and bigotry come up strong in Switzerland

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From: Thomas Grossi
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1992 14:06
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In article <1992Feb26.221629.26204@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu>, peter@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Peter Hoffman) writes:
|> I have been wondering how long the censors think that they can keep
|> this sort of thing up?  The most obvious problem that I can see is
|> that this encourages people to post out of the correct group.  For
|> example, if I have a post that I know will go to a group that doesn't
|> get through, all I have to do is post it to a group that I know will
|> get through with a Subject: line that will flag it for readers who
|> want it.

Furthermore, with many news systems it is possible to force a posting in a
forbidden group by cross-posting to another.  For example, if someone posted a
message in soc.motss and eunet.test, and the message arrived at my site, the
group soc.motss would get created (if it didn't already exist) and the article
inserted in that group (as well as in eunet.test).  The trick is finding a
secondary newsgroup that won't be bothered by the extra traffic, and making
sure readers post to both.
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From: grossi@csinn.uucp (Thomas Grossi)
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Subject: Re: Censorship and bigotry come up strong in Switzerland
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Date: 27 Feb 92 14:06:08 GMT
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