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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

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