Re: Test Message

> On 2012-02-17, onedbguru <onedbguru_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 16, 2:46?am, Eric <e..._at_deptj.eu> wrote:
> >> On 2012-02-16, Kay Kanekowski <kay.kanekow..._at_web.de> wrote:
> > >
> >> > On 16 Feb., 00:59, Eric <e..._at_deptj.eu> wrote:
> >> >> You have seen a cancelled message!
> > >
> >> > Hi,
> >> > your message isn't really cancelled
> > >
> >> > Kay
> > >
> >> Why do you say that?
> > >
> > if it were cancelled you would not see it. Therefore because we DO
> > see it, it is not cancelled.
>
> Not true. Cancels tend to be ignored, which was the whole point of the
> exercise.

You're wasting your time Eric. Even if you accept the frankly ludicrous premise that spammers either read replies to their posts or read a group before spamming it, most usenet servers don't honour cancel requests, & neither does Google Groups. The only way a cancel sometimes works is if you send it within seconds of the original, before the post leaves your provider's server.

The only thing David & Joel achieve by replying to them is to propogate the spam to everyone who didn't see the original due to using a proper usenet provider and/or local rules. But I've been down this road with them several times before to no avail.

-- 
Preston.