Martin Hotze wrote in
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Skywise wrote:

Oh really?!?!? They do in fact filter messages and have admitted
to doing so in their support groups. For example, they have had
a filter on all GoogleNews posts that are crossposted to more
than three groups. "Andrew" in the support newsgroup explained
it all to me when I had complained about not seeing google
messages. They also filter for spam and other abuses of usenet
based on complaints they receive. That is most definately not
"unfiltered access".


IMHO, this is more a good practise to use cleanfeed etc. (spam
prevention) filtred access is more a "we filter all postings from
@foo.bar"

The problem with Supersucks is not spam. The problem is they
are blocking legit postings from upstanding users simply because
they are using a particular news provider, and refusing to explain
their actions, much less even acknowledge that they do so.

Now, it's one thing for an NSP to not have a peering relationship
with another NSP, but due to the very nature of the system, the
messages will get propogated anyway.

However, Supersucks is actively blocking ALL messages that originate
from certain NSP's regardless of content and routing. This is a
de facto UDP (usenet death penalty), even if it's not an official
one.

As I understand it, UDP's are agreed to by consensus among several
NSP's and reasons are given and discussed. As near as I can tell,
Supersucks is attempting a unilateral UDP all by themselves for
reasons unknown - at least as far as I've been able to find. If
anyone knows different, I'm all ears.

Also, it's one thing to attempt to filter out the obvious spam
and other nasties on usent, but these messages that are being
blocked do not fall under this category.

For all I know, the owner of Supersucks and Newsfeeds were dating
and Newsfeeds dumped Supersucks and now Supersucks is acting like
a ****y little teenybopper in retaliation. I don't know. They refuse
to discuss anything related to this issue while they have gladly
discussed other issues and filtering policies.

Brian
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