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Does this newsgroup practice censorship?

Gary Forbis GaryForbis at email.msn.com
Tue Aug 8 07:25:26 EST 2000


Thanks,

The entire exchange just showed up in this newsgroup.

"Mark D. Morin" <mdmpsyd at PETERHOOD69.earthlink.net> wrote in message news:398FD60B.D6B833DB at earthlink.net...
> Gary Forbis wrote:
>
> > Several articles were exchanged under the subject
> > "What the Neocortex Does."  The articles were cossposted to
> > both comp.ai.philosophy and bionet.neuroscience.
> > Unlike several other threads that have been crossposted to these
> > two groups, all of the articles under the given subject have been
> > deleted from the bionet.neuroscience and my two contributions
> > have been deleted from comp.ai.philosophy as well.  I've reposted
> > my last article twice and it has been deleted twice.  I suspect my
> > latest repost will be deleted as well.
> >
> > I don't understand why these articles have been deleted when articles
> > such as "Play FREE Lotto Online..." remain.  I don't visit this newsgroup
> > very often and my articles wouldn't have appeared here had they not
> > been replies to crossposted articles.
> >
> > I'm sorry for this off topic article but I'd like to understand what is going
> > on and why.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Since this isn't a moderated group, I don't know how that censoring process would
> take place. You could certainly look for cancels and see if any were issued for
> your posts--there may be a bot out there programmed to cancel your posts; I find
> that unlikely.
>
> What is more probable is that there is something misconfigured at MSN's end.
> MSN's news support would be the first place to look.
>
> mark
>
>
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