More forged cancels (fwd)

Michael Froomkin froomkin at law.miami.edu
Mon Oct 2 08:55:20 PDT 1995


why is my mailbox full of stuff from mail.cypherpunks? 

****   PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: froomkin at law.miami.edu *********

A. Michael Froomkin | +1 (305) 284-4285; +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) Associate
Professor of Law | U. Miami School of Law | froomkin at law.miami.edu P.O.
Box 248087 | http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA
| New address, but it's still just as hot here. 

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>From: orbit at ix.netcom.com (Michael R. Grabois) Newsgroups:
news.admin.net-abuse.misc,soc.culture.german,soc.culture.jewish,rec.radio.shortwave,alt.2600,mail.cypherpunks,alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.stop.spamming,alt.stop-spamming
Subject: Re: More forged cancels Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 03:31:03 GMT
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8:30:40 PM PDT 1995 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref:
hudson.lm.com news.admin.net-abuse.misc:16173 soc.culture.german:76152
soc.culture.jewish:188004 rec.radio.shortwave:63171 alt.2600:125976
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cypherpunks at toad.com Sender: owner-cypherpunks at toad.com Precedence: bulk

On Sun, 01 Oct 1995 23:45:24 GMT, jbyrd at tiac.net (Jim Byrd) wrote: 

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>sundog.tiac.net!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!sunic!mn6.swip.net!seunet!news2..swip..net!plug..ne
>ws.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.gmi..edu!msunews!netnew
>s.upenn.edu!ts7-28.upenn.edu!user
>From: 73323.603 at compuserve.com
>Newsgroups: soc.culture.german,soc.culture.jewish
>Subject: cmsg cancel <73323.603-3009951517290001 at ts7-28.upenn.edu>
>Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 17:56 GMT
>Organization: The National Alliance
>Message-ID: <cancel.73323.603-3009951517290001 at ts7-28.upenn.edu>
>NNTP-Posting-Host: ts7-28.upenn.edu
>Approved: 73323.603 at compuserve.com
>Control: cancel <73323.603-3009951517290001 at ts7-28.upenn.edu>
>X-Cancelled-By: 73323.603 at compuserve.com
>Lines: 1

>CANCELLED.

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Does this mean that the cancel came from the Compuserve account?
Forging cancel notices is definitely against CIS rules, as is
unsolicited e-mail. I've already talked to a sysop there about it, and
he said he'd pass it along to the CIS Security folks.

If nothing else, that may get his account revoked. Hey, small
victories.



        Michael R. Grabois    | orbit at ix.netcom.com
        Houston, TX           | CI$: 74737,2600
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