Re: WebTV.Net: Censorship Central?
23 Nov
1998
23 Nov
'98
3:36 p.m.
If Paul will add 208.222.122.40 to the RBL and Merit will use the RBL I'll bet many NANOG readers would buy a WebTV unit just to get rid of Bob... Bob, many pray that you would be added to the RBL, nightly as a matter of fact, before supplications for ones own health. Drop it. ---Bob Allisat wrote: > > > <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 WebTV�(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 > > MAPS�RBL. > > > > You can check to see whether your IP�address is on the RBL by > > checking <URL:http://maps.vix.com/cgi-bin/lookup> ; enter your > > IP�address in the form. > > > > If you do not know what your IP�address 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 WebTV�for 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 > > > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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