Some of you guys and gals might know that I had public arguments with
Chris Lewis on news.admin.net-abuse.misc. However, on the spam
cancelation issue, personally I believe Chris is doing a good thing.
If he is rogue, he would not bother raising the issue about FAQ
cancellations.
Most important of all, I believe "FAQ-Maintainers@consensus.com" is
a mailing list for FAQ maintainers on FAQ issues. I recommend we use
private E-mails to exchange the views on spam cancellations. After
all, this mailing list is not primarily for spam cancellation discussions.
----
Now back to the FAQ cancellation issue, as Chris Lewis accused UUnet,
I wonder
(1) whether it is possible to alias out the alleged problematic UUnet
site. At least, are news administrators able to ignore cancel
commands sent out through that UUnet site?
(2) I am not in the news.answers moderation team. However, is the
cancel command affecting the FTP/WWW archiving mechanism for the
FAQ's? What happens if someone forge a posting in news.answers
with the appropriate "Approved:" header? For instance, Chris Lewis
maintains a FAQ on wiring. If bad guys want to target him, can they
forge a post by Chris Lewis in news.answers with the goal to "wipe
out" the authenticate FAQ by Chris?
Doug from Dejanews once joked that I should refrain from posting
something to give the hackers ideas. However, for the FAQ Maintainer
mailing list, I thought the probability that this post falls to the
wrong hands might be somewhat small. Besides, under current trends,
I am afraid that eventually one day this will happen to us FAQ
maintainers.
-- Tung-chiang Yang tcyang@ee.ucla.edu Dept. of Electrical Engineering, UCLA, USA Nov 15, 1996
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