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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: EUnet, unido and USENET
Summary: Not quite; disturbing email received
Keywords: unido, blacklisting, domain .de, subnet,
Message-ID: <1989Jul22.142013.25781@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 22 Jul 89 14:20:13 GMT
References: <588@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> <882@corpane.UUCP> <8594@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US> <8276@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <1989Jul20.102927.26127@coms.axis.fr> <917@utoday.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Mundelein, IL
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In article <917@utoday.UUCP> greenber@.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes:
>(It sorta sounds like EUNet is simply a European version of UUNET....)

Not quite:

I have received a very disturbing piece of email.  I'm waiting for
permission to publish it here -- the mail was from a German _commercial_ 
site, and stated (loosely):

	"We can't get a feed from uunet -- they won't accept our
	connection.  We have tried for a direct link, and were told no."

I requested more details and permission to post the e-letter.  Haven't
received a reply yet.  

If this is true then uunet is hardly what one would consider a 
"common carrier" of netnews.

Note that this report is at present UNVERIFIED.  I will post more details if
and when I receive a reply to my letter asking permission to post the email
I received.

Comments from the uunet people?

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