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Posted by Ernie Klein on January 16, 2007, 7:01 pm
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> I received a cancellation request in the ng submissions
> today. It is now near impossible to cancel posts that are
> on news servers because the news servers operators rarely
> accept cancellations. We have hackers and spammers to thank
> for that.
>
> Off the top of my head, I think it was around 1999 when some
> miscreant submitted several thousand cancellations to wipe
> out one of the .alt newsgroups in which he was on the short
> end of a flame war.
That is correct. I don't know of any news server that will
still honor cancelations. There are still plenty anti-social
posters though. Another moderated group has one who forges
the headers to bypass the moderator. It only takes one bad
apple to ruin it for the rest of us.
--
-Ernie-
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