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

[dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)]

Tim Skirvin <tskirvin@math.uiuc.edu> writes:

>
> Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu> writes:
>
> > "Make Money Fast" are killed because they're illegal scams in the US and I
> > think in most of the world.
>
> 	Make.Money.Fast is killed because it's spam a few thousand times
> over.  The legality of it doesn't come into question.

Look in your "control" newsgroup, and you'll see that most of the
cancels forged for the MMFs state in the body that they're being
cancelled because they're "illegal". To save bandwidth, here's one
counterexample to Tim's claim:

]Path: ...!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!cyberspam!not-for-mail
]From: news@news.msfc.nasa.gov
]Newsgroups: sci.physics
]Subject: cmsg cancel <32684BAE.68B3@computer.mic> no reply ignore
]Message-ID: <cancel.32684BAE.68B3@computer.mic>
]Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 15:07:31 GMT
]Control: cancel <32684BAE.68B3@computer.mic>
]Sender: listentome <determin@computer.mic>
]Reply-To: bitbucket@news.msfc.nasa.gov
]Organization: Semi-Automatic Chain Letter Remover
]Lines: 3
]Approved: news@news.msfc.nasa.gov
]X-No-Archive: Yes
]X-Canceled-by: news@news.msfc.nasa.gov
]
]ignore
]
]Illegal MMF canceled by news@news.msfc.nasa.gov

You will notice that the anonymous cancel came from a .gov site. :-)

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