-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Adam Back wrote:
Mark Grant <mark@unicorn.com> writes:
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so all that a government need do to censor a particular site is to scan for those messages and issue cancels.
- I understand cancels are ignored a lot of places, due to problems with censorous people, and pranksters issuing tons of forged cancels.
And alot like to use canceles. If censorus groups (not neccery the goverment) starts canceling we may be able to create a resector like that used in news.admin.net-abuse.* [...]
I don't have any figures for how widespread the practice of configuring news to ignore cancels is.
Most sites still hounder cancels, a growing number ignore them (often for preformence resons). - -- Please excuse my spelling as I suffer from agraphia see the url in my header. Never trust a country with more peaple then sheep. ex-net.scum and proud You Say To People "Throw Off Your Chains" And They Make New Chains For Themselves? --Terry Pratchett -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM+ifYqQK0ynCmdStAQEhzwQAnw82Mk6XNlvQRUGVDVsBW63vOkFBZDV/ oLz3BUFTnrn4mHZxwuU2s+j1O2s7aLZP/ImD69XePILqKJDYiMJ6A6nc0reirNZ0 6WlkPl6jgpqWL8SKNidisjDWmwMXoYdkE6HSUB2rGoLgrtzvw4RXc6XcnQcG2Zb0 b8andhqfeTs= =POHl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----