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From: gazette@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Chris Redmond)
Subject: Re: McCarthy, the net, and this newsgroup
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1991 19:57:59 GMT
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Brad Templeton of Looking Glass Software (brad@looking)
adds the following perceptive comment to my observation
about the ban on "alt" newsgroups in Norway.  He's obviously
more conscious of the chronology of events here than I was.
Can't imagine why he would be interested :-).
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An important note is that the Alt ban in norway cut off alt.desert-shield,
but so did the alt ban at UW cut it off from the invasion in August to
mid-november, when Alt groups were restored.

The point being that UW's capricious decision to cut out all of ALT removed
it from one of the more interesting networking and political phenomena of
the war era.