🚀 go-pugleaf

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".

> To: fjb@torfree.net
> Subject: Re: Occurred a wild event - Polices making arbitrariness!
[Sender's name deleted from this quote]

> In the man.general that exists outside of the Manitoba Cyber Curtain,
> fjb@torfree.net (Jim Butterfield) wrote:

=>Surely newsgroups such as man.general or wpg.general would be more 
=>appropriate?

> I guess you're about the only person in Canada who doesn't know that
> MBNet has for the past month been censoring anything posted to the
> provincial or city hierarcies, i.e. man.* & wpg.*, from any ISP's
> ouside of Manitoba and it doesn't show up, it's just spewed off into
> the bit bucket.

> As well anything that is posted from within Manitoba, that is cross
> posted to any other NG is likewise killed off. In addition any message
> that is cross posted to 9 or more NG's is killed off.

> Anything posted to the provincial and city hierarcies by Manitobans
> is not tossed back into the CA*Net backbone. Welcome to the
> world of the Usenet Ozarks of Manitoba.

> I'm not even sure if this will make it out because Escape has a
> peer agreement with MBNet, and I don't know if this news server
> is exept from the restriction. Their other news server definitely
> isn't. As for e-mail...no one knows for sure.

> If you don't believe it, I'll forward you their announcements.
> The Usenet border to Manitoba is closed.

Just in case this is of interest ...

			  --Jim