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Proposed Usenet Death Penalty for Australia's Largest ISP

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cutting-off-hand-to-spite-face dept.

supine writes "David Ritz has issued a request for discussion on applying a Usenet Death Penalty to Australia's largest ISP, Bigpond (and it's parent company Telstra)." This brought back to memory the time when AOL was facing similar charges.

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  1. Give it to 'em by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1, Funny
    I say let 'em have it. The only issue is the possible backlash, and I say heck with it, they're obviously being bad netizens. There's really no discussion to be had.

    Other than all the haters posting about 'is usenet still around'...jeez usenet threads are almost as offtopic with haters as the sendmail ones...

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  2. ROUGE! by muzzmac · · Score: 1, Funny

    From the linked RFD: "At that time, I was attempting to de-peer Matt Middleton's rouge spam feed, in October, 1998." Cool. A "rouge" spam feed. The french commies are behind the spam! I knew it!

  3. Too harsh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Death penalty for using usenet? Jeeze MPAA and RIAA are are extreme!

  4. Of course it's still useful... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...there's still the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* groups. The best source of free porn.

  5. Re:Big deal. by evilviper · · Score: 2, Funny
    BTW, what's with all these slashdot server errors?????

    Apparently, Slashdot posted a story about the changes they were making to the slashcode. Unfortunately, they included a self-referential link. Hence, slashdot was slashdotted. :-)
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  6. Re:telstra have problems by oni · · Score: 3, Funny

    I doubt that this will be resolved by telstra if threatened with action; action will have to be taken.

    I think we should give the inpectors more time!