IP: Re: IP: Germany admits probe; claims CompuServe blocked

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

> Posted-Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 13:10:24 -0500
> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 10:33:18 -0700
> From: John Perry Barlow <barlow () eff org>
> Subject: Re: IP: Germany admits probe; claims CompuServe blocked voluntarily
> To: interesting-people () eff org (interesting-people mailing list)
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> At 10:41 AM 12/29/95, Dave Farber wrote:
>
> > It is only proper now to ask, "Who's lying?"  Either CompuServe was ordered
> > to block the newsgroups, as it asserts, or it did so voluntarily, as the
> > German government says.
>
> After several days of investigation, I would say they're both confused and
> that if any overt lying is going on, it's primarily CompuServe doing it.
> Truly a tempest in a teapot.
>
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