FAQ cancellations.

---------

Chris Lewis (clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca)
Fri, 15 Nov 1996 15:12:55 -0500


As mentioned earlier, the latest set of attacks against
despamming, UUNET, Tale, and any sort of organized Usenet
appears to have taken the form of mass-cancellations of FAQs,
forged in various people's names. Ie: mine.

As happened last time, (the 30,000+ kike/fag/twat/geek/slanteyecancel
attack a few weeks ago) I will be resurrecting as many of the FAQs
that were cancelled as possible. I should have it done early
this evening. So, therefore, please do not try reposting your
FAQ yet, and please, don't harrass the person forged into the
cancel message.

Please expend your energies in convincing UUNET to close its open
NNTP port. UUNET is the largest single source of this sort of
abuse on the entire net by a considerable margin.

Sure, there are a few good reasons that the NNTP port was left open,
but none good enough to justify it being the source of hundreds of
_thousands_ of forged cancels, Usenet/mail bombs and other garbage.

-- 
For more information on spam, including countermeasures and resources,
see the Internet Spam Boycott, at <URL:http://www.vix.com/spam/>.

Chris Lewis: _Una confibula non sat est_



[ Usenet Hypertext FAQ Archive | Search Mail Archive | Authors | Usenet ]
[ 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 ]

---------

faq-admin@landfield.com

© Copyright The Landfield Group, 1997
All rights reserved