Those of you following those arguments will know that you admitted
to deliberately trying to get me mad.
} (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?
I have serious doubts whether aliasing out uunet would be a good idea.
UUNET is simply too ubiquitous a passthru 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?
That's exactly what happened.
} 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.
Bad guess. Several of the kook cabal post "approved" FAQs (esp. Gonsalez,
and I think Vulis), and chances are they are on this list.
} Besides, under current trends,
} I am afraid that eventually one day this will happen to us FAQ
} maintainers.
It already is.
-- 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_
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