[21417] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hold on to your news servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Fri Nov 13 19:49:17 1998
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 16:29:29 -0800
To: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19981113184534.00b03da4@odie.av8.com>
At 06:57 PM 11/13/98 -0500, Dean Anderson wrote:
>Sheesh. I'm getting tired of increasingly large logs of cancels and
>reposts. I think we should start treating all cancels that are sent out by
>someone who is not a moderator or the original poster as an abuse.
>
>Anyone who cancels someone elses post who is not a moderator or the
>original poster should lose their account/job at ISP/etc.
>
>So lets start sending in complaints...
This is why we dropped our UseNet feed three years ago, during the CoS
cancel-bunny wars. We saw, even then, Windows programs that would allow an
end-luser to generate cancels. When I saw three of them offered at
shareware.com I knew UseNet was in trouble. When I started to see the
cancel rate go *way* up, I dropped the feed.
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