From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Apr 17 12:46:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA29809 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:46:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA29801 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:46:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970116) with ESMTP id PAA14919; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 15:45:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPN/970116) with ESMTP id PAA01324; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 15:45:48 -0400 (EDT) To: danlaw@rust.net cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Binaries in Usenet (was: News...) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Apr 1997 15:43:57 EDT." <33567D7D.7DF1@rust.net> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 15:45:48 -0400 Message-ID: <1322.861306348@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sysadmin wrote in message ID <33567D7D.7DF1@rust.net>: > Gary Palmer wrote: > [snip] > > > > > The problems with deleting the groups people are interested in are > > > obvious of course! > > > > *shrug* I wonder how many AOL users know that the AOL proxy denies > > access to certain sites? (If I remember right) > > Nope. They simply do not call those to the Lusers' attention by > providing a text description. The "expert add" function allows > adding the groups by entering the actual newsgroup name. Sorry, I was referring to WWW sites. I remember reading somewhere that a WWW site claimed it was inaccessible from AOL as they deemed the content unsuitable. Can't remember where, sorry. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info