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Re: WebTV.Net: Censorship Central?


From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol () nacs net>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 08:54:18 -0500

On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 06:44:51PM -0200, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote:
 Microsoft's Web TV Network, with hundreds of thousands of subscribers,
 uses the real-time black hole list censorship software. Very disturbing
 since it niether tells it's clients their mail and WWW is being censored
 nor offers them the choice as to whether or not to allow this censorship.
 Outside their lame anti-spam statement there is no indication of any
 censorship anywhere else <http://www.webtv.net/antispam/>.

Thanks for pointing me to a good source of spamming hosts/domains!

IT'S NOT.

WebTV is stupid.

They are blocking everyone that spams them even once. Including providers
like Erols who are known to take swift action against net abusers (but Erols
may have gotten that fixed by now.)
 
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Steve Sobol [sjsobol () nacs net]
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