geekcancel?

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.

• start of cancel message ----- Path: cs.ubc.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.kreonet.re.kr!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!geekcancel!koobera.math.uic.edu!djb From: djb_at_koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein) Sender: djb_at_koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein) Approved: djb_at_koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Date: 21 Sep 96 12:21:12 GMT Subject: cmsg cancel <1996Sep2200.20.32.9376_at_koobera.math.uic.edu> Organization: IR Control: cancel <1996Sep2200.20.32.9376_at_koobera.math.uic.edu> Message-ID: <cancel.1996Sep2200.20.32.9376_at_koobera.math.uic.edu> Lines: 4

These cancels are issued as a service to the Internet providers not wishing to carry articles from computer geeks and eggheads. Sites that do not wish to take advantage of this free service can easily can opt out of these cancels by "aliasing out" the geekcancel pseudosite.

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