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Re: Cyber curtain drops on Manitoba?

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From: Arthur D. Mira
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 00:00
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I'm sure Roman Kazan at escape.com would be interested to know that
you are now the postmaster at escape.com, so I've taken the liberty of
forwarding your post to him in case your stupidity creates any
headaches for them. I wonder if Kazan Corp. might even ask you to
publicly apologize to them. I sure hope so.

You have made it abundantly clear that you are in total agreement
with the censorious policies of Mills and Rose. Going to these lengths
to appear that you speak with some authority other than just another
usenet user is nothing short of assinine regardless of what you have
put in your sigfile.

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In torfree.general, tor.general, can.infohighway, wpg.general,
man.general, news.admin.net-abuse.usenet, ennis@mail.escape.com
postmaster (Sean Ennis) wrote:

>bt351@torfree.net (bt351) writes:
>
>] Jim Butterfield (fjb@torfree.net) wrote:
>] : Following up on a confusing posting from Manitoba that seemed to target 
>] : every newsgroup except wpg.general and man.general, I received an email 
>] : response quoted below.
>
>] : The sender is likely right that I'm the only person left who doesn't know 
>] : that Manitoba isn't listening any more.  Still, I find it surprising: I 
>] : would have picked provinces other than Manitoba for candidate of "don't 
>] : want to hear from the outside".
>
>] 	one can only speculate why this transpired.  manitoba has 
>] historically been geographically isolated (but usually liberal of view).
>] 	that she should resort to censorship to remain so (in light of 
>] ongoing infrastructure upgrades allowing otherwise) runs contrary to 
>] one's expectations.
>
>man.* and wpg.* since their creation, were always meant to be distributed
>only withing Manitoba.
>
>For whatever reason, the man.* and wpg.* hierarchiefs leaked out of
>Manitoba, and started receiveing posts from out side.  MBNet's news server
>(where most of the ISP's recieve their news feeds) until recenetly was not
>able to filter out these 'rogue' posts.  Within the last month the server
>was upgraded, and a rule that was ALWAYS in existance was now able to be
>enforced (i.e. that you should only be able to post/read from it, from
>sites within Manitoba).
>
>Sean
>
>--
>Wally : "Stupidity is like nuclear       | From: header munged to prevent junk
>power; it can be used for good or evil." | mail. If you have to say, remove the
>Dilbert : "And you don't want to get     | postmaster and change the com to a ca
>            any on you."                 | in the 'From:' line.    Sean Ennis O-
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From: admiral@ilos.net (Arthur D. Mira)
Subject: Re: Cyber curtain drops on Manitoba?
Date: 1998/02/20
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