23 Nov
1998
23 Nov
'98
2:19 p.m.
<http://fcn.net/no> Microsoft's Web TV Network, with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, uses the real-time black hole list censorship software. Very disturbing since it niether tells it's clients their mail and WWW is being censored nor offers them the choice as to whether or not to allow this censorship. Outside their lame anti-spam statement there is no indication of any censorship anywhere else <http://www.webtv.net/antispam/>. Perhaps the people using WebTV would appreciate knowing the fact that Web TV censors their access. Or, even better, maybe Web TV could offer them the choice as to whether their black list is off or on (default to off). I'd be royally pissed off if I used WebTV and found out every- thing I did was behind some one fellow's idea of right and wrong. Shame on Web TV Networks! More info at: <http://fcn.net/no> Paul Vixie writes: <http://maps.vix.com/rbl/webtv.html> > If you received an error while trying to send mail to WebTV, > please click here. * (next page) > Having problems sending to WebTV? > > Although WebTVÊ(webtv.net) uses the RBL, they also have their own > list of IP addresses they reject mail from. Just because they > reject mail from a site does not mean that site is on the > MAPSÊRBL. > > You can check to see whether your IPÊaddress is on the RBL by > checking <URL:http://maps.vix.com/cgi-bin/lookup> ; enter your > IPÊaddress in the form. > > If you do not know what your IPÊaddress is, please contact your > system administrator or ISP. Complaining to us about WebTV's > actions is, unfortunately, largely useless, as we have no control > over how they (or anyone else) runs their systems. > > Please contact WebTVÊfor information on why your address block is > on their list, and how to get it removed. Bob Allisat Free Community Network _ bob@fcn.net . http://fcn.net http://fcn.net/allisat _ http://fcn.net/draft