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1997-07-31 - Re: forged cancels (Re: Entrust Technologies’s Solo - free download)

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From: Tim Skirvin <tskirvin@math.uiuc.edu>
To: freedom-knights@jetcafe.org
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UTC Datetime: 1997-07-31 15:17:53 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 23:17:53 +0800

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From: Tim Skirvin <tskirvin@math.uiuc.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 23:17:53 +0800
To: freedom-knights@jetcafe.org
Subject: Re: forged cancels (Re: Entrust Technologies's Solo - free download)
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"Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM" <dlv@bwalk.dm.com> writes:

> 1. "Spam cancellers" are not generally news admins. They are plain old
> users who get kicked off of their ISPs for forging cancels. For examples,
> see Net.Scum pages of Rick Buchanan, David Ritz, et al.

	Many spam cancellers are news admins.  Most of the major ones are
admins, in fact - Chris Lewis, JEM, etc.

> 2. Once a cancel-forger builds a "reputation" as a "spam canceller",
> s/he often diversifies into "retromodetration" - forgng cancels for
> singly-postd articles whose contents they don't like and claiming that
> they were "spam". For examples, see the Net.Scum pages for Guy Macon
> (the retromoderator on soc.religion.quaker), Chris Lewis, et al.

	This rarely happens, actually, and such situations are quickly
slapped down as soon as they're spotted.  

	The two examples Dimitri gives, of course, are major 
misrepresentations.

				- Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@uiuc.edu)
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