From: djones@insight.mcmaster.ca (David Jones)
Newsgroups: inforamp.general,inforamp.support,alt.censorship,comp.org.eff.talk,can.legal,can.infohighway,tor.general,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,alt.society.civil-liberty,ont.general
Subject: iStar memo:  don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
Date: 6 Jul 1996 19:20:25 -0400
Organization: McMaster University, Computational Vision Laboratory
Lines: 102
Message-ID: <4rmsbp$5ur@insight.dcss.mcmaster.ca>

Canada's iStar-Internet service providers, including Inforamp
(at www.inforamp.net), have just pulled the plug on certain
controversial newsgroups.

Many Inforamp customers are miffed because, according to the following
internal memo, technical support were instructed *not* to tell customers
the list of banned newgroups - nor was any announcement made in the usual
"Message of the Day" to inform users about the decision.

See:
   http://www.efc.ca/pages/isp/istar-memo-03jul96.html
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			 M E M O R A N D U M

TO:	iSTAR Technical Support Staff

FROM:	Margo Langford, Corporate & Regulatory Counsel

SUBJECT: USENET News Groups

DATE:	July 3, 1996

CC:	David Ralston, COO
	Michael Martineau, VP, Engineering
	John Cryer, VP, Western Region
	Steve Doswell, VP, Central Region
	Denis Choquette, VP, Eastern Region
	Eric Carroll, Sr. Director, Network Services
	David Chaloner, Manager, Integration

Please be advised that effective today, we will be enforcing the
attached policy by deleting the appended list of USENET newsgroups
from all iSTAR USENET news servers. The attached quote is for public
distribution, and should be made available on all iSTAR web servers.

Quote

Pursuant to iSTAR internet Inc's policy to prohibit use of the iSTAR
network for illegal purposes, on the advice of legal counsel, certain
newsgroups have been deleted as they contain material that contravenes 
the laws of Canada. 

iSTAR will not tolerate the use of its network for illegal purposes.
Any incidence of illegal use reported to iSTAR internet will be
investigated and the information will be turned over to the
appropriate authorities. iSTAR reserves the right to cancel a
customer's account for illegal use of its network, or for interference
with other users or networks.

Unquote

In specific, we have deleted the following newsgroups per legal counsel.

				 NOTE

    This list is for the information of the technical support staff 
    of iSTAR internet only, and is not for general redistribution or 
    publishing to the customer base. 

Please only give out examples, or confirmation of deleted groups when
customers ask, but do not otherwise make the full list available.

	alt.binaries.warez*
	alt.binaries.pictures.child.erotica.male
	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bestiality
	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.child*
	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.children
	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teens
	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.schoolgirls
	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.babies
	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.cheerleaders
	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.fetish.diaper
	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gymnast*
	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen*
	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.young
	alt.binaries.lolita.misc
	alt.binaries.pictures.nudism
	alt.binairies.pictures.erotica.teens
	alt.sex.children
	alt.sex.preteens
	alt.sex.pedophilia*
	alt.sex.incest
	alt.sex.babies
	alt.sex.bestiality*
	alt.sex.fetish.diapers
	alt.sex.fetish.tinygirls
	alt.sex.intergen
	alt.sex.masturbation.pictures.female.teen
	alt.sex.necrophilia
	alt.sex.teens
	alt.sex.young
	alt.sex.boys
	alt.sex.girls
	alt.sex.fetish.scat
	alt.sex.sm.fig
	alt.sex.stories.hetero.incest
	alt.sex.watersports