? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes:
On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
I think the extreme aversion to censorship (like that displayed by imp and myself) seldom arises in people who haven't themselves been victims of censorship
Dose threats from a multynatnatil corpration count? Dose living in Austrlia count?
Evidently these haven't made you into a staunch opponent of censorship. Perhaps if they did succeed in pulling your plug, you'd feel differently.
The current top "spam canceller", Rich Bland ("cosmo")
Jem seems to have gotten to the top of the list now.
I haven't been tracking the forgers lately. For those who don't know John E. Milburn: he's an expatriate U.S. engineer who used to work in South Korea and forge cancels from there in a variety of newsgroups (like alt.religion.monica). I caught him forging a cancel for one of my articles (for "homophobia" and "excessive cross-posting"). Milburn lost his job in Korea last year (possibly because of the complaints about his net-abuse) and announced his "retirement" from forging cancels. I'm sorry to see this bastard back.
I was just pointing out that it's factually incorrect to use "admins" as a synonym for "anti-spammers".
No sane person would suggest that (i.e. lots of peaple on usenet would make that suggestion) because if it was true then we wouldn't have the problems with agis or uunet.
Tim Skirvin presents these "newbies" with a false view of Usenet as a unified front of news admins who have all reached consensus that free speech is evil and are now fighting the evil spammers.
Chris Lewis and Dave Barr obth forge cancels for usenet articles that follow up on their articles and quot them, claiming "copyright violations".
This is interesting, proof please.
Check out Chris Lewis's Net.Scum page at http://www.netscum.net/lewisc0.html. Find "Edward Gerk" - one of the people who quoted Chris Lewis and whose articles Chris Lewis canceled for "copyright violations". Next check out Barr's Net.Scum page at http://www.netscum.net/barrd0.html. Find "Alain Larouche" - same thing.
Once the offending articles are part of the spool on toher site, it's pointless for me to issue cancels.
Not even to free up diskspace?
Correct. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps