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

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Message ID: <41eRae3w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
Reply To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.970801134915.363A-100000@shirley>
UTC Datetime: 1997-08-01 14:39:00 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 22:39:00 +0800

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 22:39:00 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: forged cancels (Re: Entrust Technologies's Solo - free   download)
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? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
> On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Bill Stewart wrote:
>
> [...MMF...]
>
> > though I'm sure that to some extent it's because people started
> > complaining to the Post Office that they were receiving junk mail,
>
> The MMF ban came about when its volume rose to a point where it crashed
> californaia's snail mail system.

Not true.  Urban legend.

(Not did the Cantor & Siegel spam cut Australia off of Usenet.  The cancels
forged for their spam did.)

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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