Re: Cancel Messages from RTFM.MIT.EDU?

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> This -- I can't call it a spammer, it's worse -- did this
> to probably hundreds of thousands of Usenet postings. All
> kinds, every newsgroup I've seen, not just FAQs. I tried to
> get some info from news.admin.net-abuse.usenet a week or
> two ago, but most of the postings there were the BARRY
> BOUWSMA gibberish. What I did find indicated that nobody
> knows the motivation of the perpetrator.

It's even hitting groups in local hierarchys such as uk.*.

The UKs largest two ISPs(With the exception of AOL) have
stopped accepting cancel message.

Imran

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'The no-mind not-thinks no-thoughts about no-things' - The Buddha

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