Re: geekcancel?

From: Fat Freddy's Cat <ffcat_at_gmu.edu>
Date: 1996/09/23
Message-ID: <32470BA3.1497_at_gmu.edu>#1/1


Brian Edmonds wrote:
>
> News admins might want to look into immediately aliasing out the
> "geekcancel" site. Some rogue canceller out there seems to be using it
> to robocancel "computer geeks and eggheads." They already seem to have
> hit a couple regularly helpful people in comp.text.tex and
> comp.mail.misc, and I've only just started reading news for the day...
>
> Maybe Chris can track this down, I can't see anything particularly
> useful in the message below. Interesting the use of the posting site in
> the path, so the original poster often won't see the cancel.
>

I suggest a whinecancel convention for the news.* hierarchy. If that
was
in place I wouldn't have to read your drivel. Received on Mon Sep 23 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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