Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/12/84; site desint.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!bbnccv!bbncca!wanginst!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!desint!geoff From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) Newsgroups: net.sources,net.news Subject: Re: c*nc*l <148@psueea.UUCP> and many others Message-ID: <134@desint.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 01:26:17 EST Article-I.D.: desint.134 Posted: Wed Oct 30 01:26:17 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 05:28:21 EST References:, Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) Distribution: net Organization: SAH Consulting, Manhattan Beach, CA Lines: 32 Xref: watmath net.sources:3771 net.news:4201 In article nnguyen@psueea.UUCP (Nhat M. Nguyen) DOES NOT cancel his own article. Instead, some joker at oliveb (I think) has unilaterally decided to cancel a bunch of articles in net.sources. As you can see from the referenced article ID's, the culprit is forging them based on the original article number. In addition, if you go look at the cancel messages, you will find that 100% pass through oliveb, though ostensibly not a single one originated there. Every cancellation contains the following message: >Inappropriate news group I thought this was rnews protecting me against net.sources cancellations until I investigated a bit further and found that the string "approp" does not occur in rnews. Now I suspect we have a person who has decided he/she has been personally anointed to purge net.sources of inappropriate messages. (Actually that's not a bad idea, but I strongly object to the underhanded and sneaky way this person has approached it. If you're going to do it, be above board and willing to take the heat. Especially because it's about to get *real* hot for you.) I have sent mail to the oliveb news administrator regarding the problem, with cc's to one of his major news neighbors (felix). In the meantime, if you have posted to net.sources, watch out to make sure your article hasn't been cancelled by a message pretending to be from you. Hell, he'll probably cancel this one. -- Geoff Kuenning {hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff