Subj : Re: FidoNet; Ken Kaplan - and the future
To   : Paulie420
From : Atreyu
Date : Thu Dec 05 2024 11:33 pm

On 05 Dec 24  18:38:24, Paulie420 said the following to Atreyu:

P>  At> All of that stopped when I carefully reviewed my ISP's AUP regarding
P>  At> what is a grey area of offensive content or things that could be
P>  At> construed as illegal or problematic from their perspective. Goodies I
P>  At> have here like the complete archive of alt.suicide.holiday or the many
P>  At> alt.flame.[insert ethnicity] groups for example. You *cannot* host thes
P>  At> things on the web on a Canadian ISP.
P> 
P> If you need any help.... :P 

Appreciate the offer but I've got bigger fish to fry at the moment... looking 
at moving outta here to suburbia.

But I've yet to see a hosting company without some sort of restrictive AUP. As
soon as you see lingo relating to offensive or "hate speech" its no dice. 
Doesn't matter if you're a digital hoarder and you want to preserve a snapshot
of history, that wild-west of the 90's Usenet and Echomail and all that.

Not to get off on a rant but I'm worried that one day, ISP's will restrict 
Telnet entirely. Eventually no ISP will give any understanding to some weirdo
running a "bulletin board system" on port 23. It will be lumped into that 
security-risk catagory along with Cisco routers, IP cameras, IOT etc.

Atreyu

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