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On Tue, 7 May 2002 23:10:52 +0100, "Wm..."
<tcnw51@tarrcity.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In mid February this year I reported a group that Demon carried to the 
>IWF and included an example posting (I think the posting, which was part 
>of a series, was cancelled at the time).
>
>Sometime in the last few days Demon pulled the ng, presumably as a 
>result of a notification from the IWF along with a few others [1]
>
>What I'm wondering about is the turnaround time and where the bottleneck 
>was.

You're assuming that your report and Demon deciding to drop the group
were connected.  Perhaps they were; perhaps they weren't.  You don't
seem to have offered any evidence of a causal relationship between the
two events.

You also seem to be under the impression that dropping groups is a
"good thing" and to be further assuming that this view is widely held.

I think you are mistaken: the dropping of newsgroups, especially by a
small parochial ISP, has hardly any effect on the availability of
those groups and probably makes it more difficult to detect those who
use the groups for illegal purposes.  There's certainly no consensus
that dropping groups achieves anything much.

Regards, Mike.

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