Re: Hold on to your news servers

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

At 06:57 PM 11/13/98 -0500, Dean Anderson wrote:
> Sheesh.  I'm getting tired of increasingly large logs of cancels and
> reposts. I think we should start treating all cancels that are sent out by
> someone who is not a moderator or the original poster as an abuse.
>
> Anyone who cancels someone elses post who is not a moderator or the
> original poster should lose their account/job at ISP/etc.
>
> So lets start sending in complaints...

This is why we dropped our UseNet feed three years ago, during the CoS
cancel-bunny wars. We saw, even then, Windows programs that would allow an
end-luser to generate cancels. When I saw three of them offered at
shareware.com I knew UseNet was in trouble. When I started to see the
cancel rate go *way* up, I dropped the feed.
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