Re: WebTV.Net: Censorship Central?

[Eric Germann <ekgermann () yahoo com>]

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 WebTVÊ(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 
> > MAPSÊRBL.
> >
> > You can check to see whether your IPÊaddress is on the RBL by 
> > checking <URL:http://maps.vix.com/cgi-bin/lookup> ; enter your 
> > IPÊaddress in the form.
> >
> > If you do not know what your IPÊaddress 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 WebTVÊfor 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

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