23 Mar
1993
23 Mar
'93
10:55 p.m.
Hal says:
This is truly tragic. Julf has endured weeks of attacks and now The Powers That Be have managed to shut down this widely used service.
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Despite this, I have the impression that most of the objectionable messages Johan refers to actually were objected to based on their content. It's not that people were bombarding newsgroups with excessive numbers of messages , it's that they were posting things that (some) people didn't want them to post.
Interesting, isn't it, that Ted Tso's nightmare about horrible libelous or volume-bomb postings didn't come true, but my nightmare about censorship seems to have. They've succeeded this time, but I doubt that they will next time... Perry