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Article #409igs.net doesn't censor customers?
From: karl mamer
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 00:00
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I find it funny IGS.NET censored the bouchard page owner yet back in the days when magusheidrun@igs.net (Heidrun Wischniwsky) was pumping out sex spams to ont.general, complaints to Frank Kahle <frank@host.igs.net> (the name on a whois search of igs.net) met amadant refusals to do anything about it until, what, Chris Lewis had to threaten IGS with a UDP? This post from dejanews reveals much. Why the sudden, ummm, change in heart? Subject: Re: Fight Back! Attack spammers who advertise web sites! From: pamstewa@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Patricia Steward) Date: 1995/07/31 Message-Id: <3vjdrf$kn8@nyx10.cs.du.edu> References: <3uebp7$a6m@paladin.american.edu> <caradoc-2207950107440001@ppp-236-102.neta.com> Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation Newsgroups: alt.current-Events.net-Abuse,news.admin.net-Abuse.misc In article <caradoc-2207950107440001@ppp-236-102.neta.com>, John Groseclose <caradoc@neta.com> wrote: > >Note my .sig... Each site on the list has in one way or another stated >that they don't care about what's going on out on Usenet or the WWW, so >I've killfiled them. I've already gotten horrified e-mail from clients on >three sites, asking why I've killfiled them. >-- >caradoc@enet.net - John Groseclose - http://www.neta.com/~caradoc >The following sites' posts are no longer accepted by my site: >aol.com prodigy.com compuserve.com ios.com iia.org io.org azgate.com >infoplus.com mordor.com Well, here's another one you can add: IGS.NET! I sent my standard one-line qustion in response to a commercial post from their site, and this is the answer I got back (you'll see my message and the post in question following the reply from igs.net:
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11544f,ba34f14096b03457,start X-Google-Attributes: gid11544f,public X-Google-Thread: 100c8e,ba34f14096b03457,start X-Google-Attributes: gid100c8e,public X-Google-Thread: 111a4f,ba34f14096b03457,start X-Google-Attributes: gid111a4f,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,ba34f14096b03457,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public X-Google-Thread: 105a5a,ba34f14096b03457,start X-Google-Attributes: gid105a5a,public From: karl mamer <kamamer@zap.io.org> Subject: igs.net doesn't censor customers? Date: 1996/11/28 Message-ID: <329DA5E2.2FDF@zap.io.org> X-Deja-AN: 201246073 distribution: inet cc: djones@insight.mcmaster.ca, kkc@netizen.org content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Fans of Nizkor, http://www.nizkor.org/ mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: ott.online,can.infohighway,comp.org.eff.talk,qc.general,ott.general x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I)