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From: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Why do they proscribe these groups?
Message-ID: <2381@flame.warwick.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 12:48:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 13 12:48:34 1985
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In article <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
>net.news.* subgroups and net.unix are still on the proscribed list.

Why do JH do this?  I'd be very interested to see a copy of the proscription
list, with the reasons for the groups being proscribed, and which categories
of users are prohibited from reading which groups.

							Kay.
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