Re: geekcancel?

Fat Freddy's Cat wrote:
>
> 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.

Yes and it appears to be _pissing me off that they seem to have used my address and site as the "geekcancel pseudosite".

I want ass on this one.

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