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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 09
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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PRAIRIENET "FREE NET" MOVES TO SQUELCH DISSENT
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Although burning with anger at the moment, I will try to calmly
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explain bullying tactics used and apparently in the works against
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this alternative news outlet by a person or persons at this time
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unknown to me who go by the alias of "The Prairienet Systems
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Staff."
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This entity, "The Prairienet Systems Staff," has denied me due
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process by (a) receiving an allegation that I have "spammed"
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someone, i.e., apparently meaning I have sent an unsolicited
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e-mail message or messages to an Internet user, then (b) finding
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me guilty of the charge, without EVER bothering to hear my side
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of the allegation, and finally (c) issuing a ruling that if it
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happens one more time, my account can be cancelled.
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If my Prairienet account is cancelled, this will (a) greatly
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limit this news service's ability to disseminate controversial,
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alternative information and (b) presumably also mean that news
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archives compiled by this alternative news service and made
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available as a public and patriotic service, and at no charge,
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will no longer be available. Specifically, it can be seen that
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the cancellation of my Prairienet account will likely also
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eliminate the public archives at the "Citizens Committee to Clean
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Up the Courts" site ("go citcom") on Prairienet.
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Also suffering due to this possible arrogant outrage being
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apparently planned by a person or persons unknown at this time
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and operating under the alias "The Prairienet Systems Staff"
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would be Mr. Sherman Skolnick, Chairman and Founder of "The
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Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts." Mr. Skolnick is a
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well-known investigator, operating in the public interest for
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three decades, whose work is widely read worldwide. The great
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majority of material to be found at the "Citizen's Committee to
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Clean Up the Courts" archive on Prairienet is by Mr. Skolnick.
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Thus, Mr. Skolnick would also be injured by possible censorship
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being secretly planned by a person or persons using the alias of
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"The Prairienet Systems Staff," and acting under the disguise of
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preventing alleged "spamming."
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Said "spamming" allegations are strongly denied by this editor.
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I never send unsolicited e-mail. What is more, I have not
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conducted mass mailings from the Prairienet account for several
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months, at least. What is more, all those on the Conspiracy
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Nation mailing list, which is sent from a different Internet
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account and not from the Prairienet account, are on that list
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because they themselves have signed onto it. It is never this
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editor's policy to subscribe persons himself; all such requests
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receive the standard response that the user himself must
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subscribe. Furthermore, any user is free to cancel their
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subscription at any time.
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Speculation on the part of this editor leads him to believe that
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the Prairienet "Free Net" system, a non-profit entity supported
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in part by corporate monies, in part by user donations, and
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presumably also receiving federal and/or state monies, may be
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under some pressure to pull the plug on the "Citizen's Committee
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to Clean Up the Courts" archives on Prairienet. It is well-known
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that Prairienet lacks funding. It is not impossible that certain
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corporate and business entities, as well as certain narrow-minded
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citizens, are using the hint or threat of cutbacks in funding by
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them as a means to silence this independent news outlet. So too,
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Illinois government officials and agencies, as well as federal
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government officials and agencies, who are critically scrutinized
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by this news outlet, have it in their power to use hints or
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threats of decreased funding to attempt to silence dissent.
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Furthermore, the very unknown person or persons operating under
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the alias of "The Prairienet Systems Staff" may themselves wish
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to silence me by using false, trumped-up charges as an excuse to
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shut down points of view they do not like.
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See below for additional information. Note especially that if
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the entity calling itself "The Prairienet Systems Staff" had
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carefully checked, they could have seen that the supposed
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"spamming" had as its destination two NEWSGROUPS, "alt.activism,"
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and "alt.conspiracy," and not any individual's e-mail account.
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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On Sun, 8 Sep 1996, Prairienet System Administrators wrote:
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> Just a reminder that sending unsolicited mass e-mail is explicitly in
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> violation of Prairienet's Acceptable Use Policy. Any further complaints
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> against this account may result in its suspension.
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>
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> -- The Prairienet Systems Staff
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> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 23:31:30 -0700 (PDT)
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> From: Micheal XXXXX <xxxxx@x.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
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> To: Brian Redman <bigxc@prairienet.org>, xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx,
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> xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
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> Subject: Re: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 07
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> In-Reply-To: <50t0jm$e36@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
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> Message-Id: <Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Mime-Version: 1.0
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> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
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>
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> What a coincidence. This is re-sent by the same address that just dumped
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> over a dozen spam messages into my email boxes. And at the same time as
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> well. And to the same people as well.
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>
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> Thank you for using Aexia On-Line's E-Mail Archiving Service. By sending
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> unsolicited E-Mail to this address, you have agreed to the terms of this
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> agreement as listed on my webpage:
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> http://weber.u.washington.edu/~aexia/license.txt
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>
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> Currently, the rate is two hundred dollars($200) per 5K per month,
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> pro-rated. The minimum storage time is one month. Send payment to:
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>
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> Micheal Keane
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> 5819 St. Andrew's Drive
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> Mukilteo, WA 98275
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>
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> Any unsolicited mail sent to that address will be archived in Aexia
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> On-Line's Junk Mail Archiving Service and will require payment. Failure to
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> send payment within 20 days will result in legal penalties.
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>
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> Thanks you for using Aexia On-Line.
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>
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> On 7 Sep 1996, Brian Redman wrote:
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> > Date: 7 Sep 1996 23:31:02 GMT
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> > From: Brian Redman <bigxc@prairienet.org>
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> > Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 07
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> > Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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> > Resent-Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 22:33:56 -0500 (CDT)
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> > Resent-From: Aardvark <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
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> > Resent-To: 1 <xxxxx@x.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>, xxxxx@xx.xxx, xxx@xxxxxx.xxx,
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> > xxxxxx@x.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx, xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx, xxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx,
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> > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx, xxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xxx, xxxx@xxxx.xxx,
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> > xxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx, xxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx, xxx@xxxxxx.xxx,
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> > xxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxxxx.xxx, xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx, xxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> > Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 07
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> > ======================================
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> > ("Quid coniuratio est?")
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> >
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> >
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[...]
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Aperi os tuum muto, et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt.
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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