I remember Usenet before Eternal September and before Canter and Siegel, when the backbone was NSFnet and before the National Information Infrastructure Act of

I remember Usenet before Eternal September and before Canter and Siegel, when the backbone was NSFnet and before the National Information Infrastructure Act of 1993. If someone was doing anything commercial over e-mail or usenet you could contact their "sysop" or their upstreams and have them removed.