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- From: mgflax@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Marshall G. Flax)
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- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.204324.7934@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <01GO2KO2RN849JD9MJ@BAYLOR.EDU> <1992Aug27.150751.11322@eff.org>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:43:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.150751.11322@eff.org> kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
- >MYGDALW@baylor.ccis.baylor.edu (William Mygdal) writes:
- >
- >>I discovered that Baylor (1) screens out all alt. and
- >>rec. groups and who knows what else - we have 1213 newsgroups listed, and (2)
- >>censors individual messages within newsgroups that are available. For
- >>example, in looking through the Jewish culture newsgroup I found that
- >>messages on the topic of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow were listed in the
- >>group, but when I tried to read one I got a message stating that that item
- >>could not be accessed.
- >
- >It's unlikely that Baylor is screening articles one-by-one; such an
- >undertaking would be very expensive. On the other hand, it is not
- >unlikely that Baylor excludes newsgroups based on the school's religious
- >doctrine.
-
- It is likely that Baylor not only excludes newsgroups (so does P'ton --
- alt.sexy.bald.captains.borg.borg.borg, for instance) but also excludes
- articles cross-posted to them as well. Given the *overwhelming* volume
- of crossposting of the WoodyMia threads, that might explain why they
- were all gone.
-
- A faily comprehensive list of newsgroups is periodically posted in
- news.announce.newusers and news.answers, if you want to see what exactly
- is being excluded.
-
- Good luck.
-
- marshall
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