UDPs In The News

General

New York Times 20 Sept 1996: Hacker Zaps Tens of Thousands Of Postings on Usenet System
New York Times 5 Mar 1998: Usenet Death Penalties: The Long Arm Of the Self-Appointed Law
New York Times 3 April 1998: Vigilantes to Let Spam Flow to Prove a Point

Compuserve

C|Net 18 Nov 1997: CompuServe given "death penalty"
InfoWorld 18 Nov 1997: Usenet administrators lock out CompuServe.
C|Net 19 Nov 1997: CompuServe "death penalty" lifted
PC World 20 Nov 1997: "Usenet Death Penalty" Pushes CompuServe to Set Spam Policy
InfoWorld 24 Nov 1997: CompuServe bends to group on Usenet spam-tolerance
New York Times 21 Nov 1997: Spam Dispute Brings Usenet and CompuServe to Brink

MCI

Wired 20 Aug 1998: MCI Customers Drowning in Spam

Netcom

New York Times 21 Feb 1998 Anti-Spam Group Threatens to Block ISP
ABC News 23 Feb 1998: Spam Busters Win the Day.
Philadelpha City Paper Interactive 23 Feb 1998: Netcom Defcon.
Wired 23 Feb 1998: Netcom Gets Usenet 'Pardon'.
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UUNet

Wired 1 Aug 1997: UUNet Given the 'Death Penalty'
C|Net 5 Aug 1997: Death penalty lifted against UUNet.
Wired 6 Aug 1997: Vigilantes Grant UUNET Stay of Execution

@Home

C|Net, 13 Jan 2000: Usenet may block Excite@Home users
Wired, 14 Jan 2000: Dead ISP Walking
CNN, 14 Jan 2000: @Home threatened with discussion-group blackballing.
ZDNet, 14 Jan 2000: @Home-Usenet scuffle could be settled.
InternetNews, 12 Jan 2000: Usenet Death Penalty Called for @Home.

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