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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: elementary posting rules
Message-ID: <3132@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 15:03:13 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 12 15:03:13 1985
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In <1131@jhunix.UUCP> ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Kenneth Adam Arromdee) writes:
>PS: I am pleased to announce that Johns Hopkins no longer prohibits reading
>of net.news or net.news.group, though other groups such as most other
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>net.news.* subgroups and net.unix are still on the proscribed list.
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This is more bizarre than anything ever in net.bizarre was... Anybody
ever see a rational explanation for this sort of thing? Why anybody
would restrict access to stuff like the new-site announcements in
net.news.config or the technical info in net.unix is completely beyond
me... Muchly strangeness...      Will