| Re: A Question? |
EasyNews, UseNet made Ea .. |
| Thane (thane100@hotmail.com) |
2009/03/01 12:47 |
<rick@ships.com> wrote in message
news:007474f8$0$28187$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
>A Question? Is everyone elso who posts here having lots of rejections. Are
> you mainly seeing just "par's" and not so many "rar's"? The same can be
> said
> across quite a few other groups on "usenet". I wonder if its because of
> the
> American authority fugure (American world moral police) who gave a dire
> warning to Usenet to clean up their act or else! I also wonder if they
> have
> an automated censoring program running that picks up and banishes any post
> with specific word's like 'b - o - y' in the title?
>
> I've been trying to post an album by Anthony Way whose title includes that
> word preceeded by choir of course. If anyone else has these problem's/
> thought's it would be interesting to read them.....Rick
>
First of all, you are somewhat off the mark in your reference to "American
world moral police." There are some GROUPS that are not carried by major
Usenet providers based on the recommendations of a _UK_ non-governmental
organization (see www.iwf.org.uk).
Secondly, there have been problems with posts (with or without boy in the
title) for the last couple of months from Easynews as they transition to new
server farms, and there have been reported problems with Astraweb posts
during the past week.
The "American authority figure" who complained was a New York state official
whose words carry no weight outside of New York and probably very little
inside of New York.
Were a provider to start monitoring individual posts, they would then leave
themselves wide open for copyright monitoring. This, of course, would wipe
out the great bulk of binary groups in their entirety.
Thane
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