> A quick check of the 8,192 most recent control articles (of
> all kinds, not just cancels) stored at my site shows that
> 1,060 -- more than 12.5% -- are cancelbot forgeries by Chris
> Lewis. Here is just one sample:
>
> ----Begin Forged Cancel------------------------------------------
>
> Path: news.panix.com!panix!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!van-bc!nrchh45.rich.nt.com!ferret.ocunix.on.ca!cyberspam!not-for-mail
> Date: 15 Nov 1996 20:44:11 GMT
> From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
> Sender: becky@line.com (Becky Tallon)
> Newsgroups: alt.personals.intercultural,alt.personals.misc,
alt.personals.phone,alt.personals.spanking,
alt.personals.spanking.punishment,
alt.personals.teen,alt.romance.mature-adult,
alt.sex,alt.sex.alt,alt.sex.alt.syntax,
alt.sex.alt.syntax.tactical,alt.sex.aluminum,
alt.sex.aluminum.baseball,alt.sex.anal,alt.sex.asphyx,
alt.sex.bdragon.and.jimdana
> Subject: cmsg cancel <328ca0eb.7007265@news.concentric.net>
> Control: cancel <328ca0eb.7007265@news.concentric.net>
> Approved: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
>
> EROSNET spam cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
> Original Subject: Secure, private and exclusive-for those with discriminating taste only--
>
> ----End Forged Cancel--------------------------------------------------
>
> So Lewis doesn't confine himself to mindless MMF chain
> letters, but also censors ads for apparently real services,
> which just happen to offend Lewis's moral sensibility.
>
I understand that Mr. Lewis concentrates on those posts that are
reperated in Very Many groups. If you need to post your message in more
than a dozen groups you have not thought out your message!
I have spread out the newsgroups involed in your example, and find it
hard to find any relation between them other than all being part of the
alt.sex hyarchy.
From the JUNK that I see when I visit the usenet these days, I suspect
that many folks just go at it..and post alphabeticaly.
Yes, Cancels are Censorship, but censorship of Spam as spam rather as
Content.
Charles MacDonald Stittsville Ontario cmacd@achilles.net
--- Just beyond the fringe ---
<a href="http://www.achilles.net/~cmacd/">homepage</a>
CANADA! --> Still Number ONE, (so sez the U. N. )
[
Usenet Hypertext FAQ Archive |
Search Mail Archive |
Authors |
Usenet
]
[
1993 |
1994 |
1995 |
1996 |
1997
]
© Copyright The Landfield Group, 1997
All rights reserved