At 05:51 ðì 17/11/1996 -0500, Tim Scanlon wrote:
George A. Stathis wrote:
This was my objection also inside the F-K list, for _some_ of the postings in the past, but none of these postings was connected with acts of censorship, or with "sweeping generalisations" without evidence. On several occasions that I searched and found who or what they were talking about, I discovered they were talking about people whose activities were indeed horrifying (forged cancellations etc) and who also fought back.
Horrifying eh? Hmm I found this just a bit to priceless to resist. I guess it falls under the old 'but I'll defend your right...' way of looking at things...
In any case, here you go, this is the latest contribution of software from Dimitri to the values of freedom of expression and non-censoring & all that blather.
#From Phrack 49, file p49-09 published this month: .oO Phrack Magazine Oo.
Volume Seven, Issue Forty-Nine
File 09 of 16
by Dr.Dimitri Vulis (KOTM)
A Content-Blind Cancelbot for Usenet (CBCB)
And what follows, is Dr. Dimitri, defender of freedom of expression, champion of the anti-censors on the net, posting code to the world to engage in exactly those activities that everyone has been ranting about as being so utterly "horrifying (forged cancellations etc)" as it were.
Amusing to say the least.
Tim
Well, this is why we _NEED_ this discussion; we _NEED_ Dimitri to explain his ideas and his critics ALSO to explain his ideas. My guess is that Dimitri's 'CANCELBOT' is intended to remove pure spam. A little while ago, I received Spam from the same source an 8th time. It even automatically replied to my... complaint AS IF it was not a complaint but a request for info, and it also... forged my E-mail address. If Dimitri Vulis (and others) possess the technical genious to relieve us of such very annoying spam-problems, I don't see at all how this contradicts Free Speech, or the right of people to speak when invited to open meetings. In any case, I am extremely greatful for the info, and would appreciate the full text and the sources of it. Cheers George