From: nobody (Anonymous) Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,can.general,uw.general,ont.general,news.sysadmin,can.infohighway Subject: Waterloo relaxing newsgroup ban ... Date: 24 Oct 1994 21:12:28 -0500 Organization: J. P. and Associates Lines: 15 Sender: remailer@jpunix.com Message-ID: <38hpic$2i2@jpunix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Comments: This message did not originate from the above address. It was automatically remailed by an anonymous mail service. Please report inappropriate use to Finger remailer@jpunix.com for remailer help. Finger kserver@jpunix.com for PGP keyserver help. The U.Waterloo administration seems to be letting some controversial newsgroups go uncensored. Will the existing bans be lifted? Banned: NOT Banned: - - - - - - - - - - alt.tasteless alt.sex.fetish.diapers alt.sex.stories alt.fan.dirty-whores alt.sex.stories.d alt.sex.erotica.marketplace alt.sex.bondage alt.personals.spanking alt.sex.bestiality alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bestiality Don't these lists seem totally arbitrary ?! Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,can.general,uw.general,ont.general,news.sysadmin,can.infohighway From: cbnorman@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Chris) Subject: Re: Waterloo relaxing newsgroup ban ... Message-ID: Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Organization: University of Waterloo References: <38hpic$2i2@jpunix.com> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 05:04:46 GMT Lines: 33 In article <38hpic$2i2@jpunix.com>, Anonymous wrote: > > Banned: NOT Banned: > - - - - - - - - - - > alt.tasteless alt.sex.fetish.diapers > alt.sex.stories alt.fan.dirty-whores > alt.sex.stories.d alt.sex.erotica.marketplace > alt.sex.bondage alt.personals.spanking > alt.sex.bestiality alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bestiality > >Don't these lists seem totally arbitrary ?! > If you're going to start posting annonymously all over the world, please bother to to the most basic levels of research. The banned newsgroups were removed because the ethics committee said they should be. James Downey passed the word down, they were removed. If any other newsgroup is to be banned, it will be through this process. In other words, if someone made alt.sex.stories.just.for.uwaterloo and started cross posting all the stories from alt.sex.stories there, the newsgroup would be picked up here, and it would take a ban from the ethics committee to get rid of it. A sensible system, no, but if you're going to complain about the system, at least know how it works. -- /| cbnorman@napier.uwaterloo.ca \`o.@' Ack! Ack! Tuiton! =(___)= "Unix is better because it's more like DOS" U - Jeremy Arndt