forged cancels (Re: Entrust Technologies's Solo - free download)

[Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM]

? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa at st.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes:

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> On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Bill Stewart wrote:
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> > though I'm sure that to some extent it's because people started
> > complaining to the Post Office that they were receiving junk mail,
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> The MMF ban came about when its volume rose to a point where it crashed
> californaia's snail mail system.

Not true.  Urban legend.

(Not did the Cantor & Siegel spam cut Australia off of Usenet.  The cancels
forged for their spam did.)

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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