geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) (10/30/85)
In article <x148@psueea.UUCP> nnguyen@psueea.UUCP (Nhat M. Nguyen) DOES NOT cancel his own article. Instead, some joker at oliveb (I think) has unilaterally decided to cancel a bunch of articles in net.sources. As you can see from the referenced article ID's, the culprit is forging them based on the original article number. In addition, if you go look at the cancel messages, you will find that 100% pass through oliveb, though ostensibly not a single one originated there. Every cancellation contains the following message: >Inappropriate news group I thought this was rnews protecting me against net.sources cancellations until I investigated a bit further and found that the string "approp" does not occur in rnews. Now I suspect we have a person who has decided he/she has been personally anointed to purge net.sources of inappropriate messages. (Actually that's not a bad idea, but I strongly object to the underhanded and sneaky way this person has approached it. If you're going to do it, be above board and willing to take the heat. Especially because it's about to get *real* hot for you.) I have sent mail to the oliveb news administrator regarding the problem, with cc's to one of his major news neighbors (felix). In the meantime, if you have posted to net.sources, watch out to make sure your article hasn't been cancelled by a message pretending to be from you. Hell, he'll probably cancel this one. -- Geoff Kuenning {hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff
ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (11/01/85)
> In the meantime, if you have posted to net.sources, watch out to make sure your > article hasn't been cancelled by a message pretending to be from you. Hell, > he'll probably cancel this one. In addition, in canceling messages double posted to net.sources and the CORRECT group, he has zapped both copies. -Ron
eli@vcvax1.UUCP (eli) (11/01/85)
> > In the meantime, if you have posted to net.sources, watch out to make > > sure your article hasn't been cancelled by a message pretending to be > > from you. > > Hell, he'll probably cancel this one. > > In addition, in canceling messages double posted to net.sources and > the CORRECT group, he has zapped both copies. > > -Ron About three days ago, a discussion was initiated about whether or not sources should be rmgroup-ed (I did not start the discussion, I am against rmgroup-ing sources). Perhaps someone decided that things would go "business as usual" if the discussion simply went away. Maybe I should have cross-posted this to net.rumor :-) ----------- "If you don't care where you are, then ya *ain't* lost" Elias Israel VenturCom, Inc. Cambridge, MA {cybvax0, mit-eddie}!vcvax1!eli