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From: kre@munnari.OZ (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Lots of cancel messages of net.sources articles
Message-ID: <992@munnari.OZ>
Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 00:21:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: munnari.992
Posted: Sat Oct 26 00:21:20 1985
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Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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Has anyone else noticed the unusually large number of cancel messages
claiming "inappropriate news group" cancelling articles in net.sources.

These all appear to be coming from oliveb!jerry - though I may be jumping to
conclusions here, and I apologise if I am, but every site that posts one of
these messages is apparently connected to oliveb, which seems a little unlikely.

Now I'm all in favour of cleaning up net.sources, there is far too much
non-source in there (those people with 2.10.3 postnews will see the extreme
lengths of the code in there to try and avoid inappropriate net.sources
postings - I am responsible) but I'm not sure that this is the right way to
do it, especially since most of these cancel messages are being faked to look
(on a cursory glance) as if they came from the originator of article being
cancelled.

Would someone like to explain just what is going on here?

Robert Elz		seismo!munnari!kre	kre%munnari.oz@seismo.css.gov