1997-08-01 - Re: forged cancels (Re: Entrust Technologies’s Solo - free download)

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From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
To: “Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM” <dlv@bwalk.dm.com>
Message Hash: 16a09ae319798a475a94edc4ee31e8216047de6702930f5ab4b29a63c423aa34
Message ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.970801173347.816E-100000@shirley>
Reply To: <FwFPae2w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-08-01 12:09:06 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 20:09:06 +0800

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From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 20:09:06 +0800
To: "Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM" <dlv@bwalk.dm.com>
Subject: Re: forged cancels (Re: Entrust Technologies's Solo - free download)
In-Reply-To: <FwFPae2w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.970801173347.816E-100000@shirley>
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On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:

> ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes:
> 
> > Nno one is arugeing that.  Both sides in this debait aggry that that is a
> > REAL BAD thing.  Spam cancelers use an objective rules.

[...]

> Let me clarify two things:
> 
> 1. "Spam cancellers" are not generally news admins.

I think you will have to justerfy this,  the top spam cancellers are all
news adimns.

> 2. Once a cancel-forger builds a "reputation" as a "spam canceller",
> s/he often diversifies into "retromodetration"

There is little proof that this is the case.  Even the netscum case could
have been considered spam.

[...]

> > Not even forgeries in my name?  Not even out of the control spews from
> > fidonet?
> 
> Correct.

Ok so if a mailing list gateway @bwalk.dm.com pumps thousands of broken
posts into usenet you don't wish them to be removed from usenet?

Nor if I post a message with your name and email, saying "Chris Lewis the
best thing that happened to usenet and I wish to have his baby."

If this is so sould I change the RB to reflect this.

Please excuse my spelling as I suffer from agraphia see the url in my header. 
Never trust a country with more peaple then sheep.  ex-net.scum and proud
You Say To People "Throw Off Your Chains" And They Make New Chains For
Themselves? --Terry Pratchett

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