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




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On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Adam Back wrote:

> Some people have been arguing that cancelling other peoples posts
> based on their own subjective views is a good thing.

Nno one is arugeing that.  Both sides in this debait aggry that that is a
REAL BAD thing.  Spam cancelers use an objective rules.  The world would
be a better place if this didn't happen and everybody was on NoCeM.  But
yet this is not true.

[...]

> It's censorship.  If you didn't write it, you have no business
> cancelling it.

Not even forgeries in my name?  Not even out of the control spews from
fidonet?

> NoCems are a good solution to mailing list and USENET groups spams.

NoCeMs don't work on email.

> For email spams (not talking about cancels here), I'd suggest
> attaching electronic payment to emails as a condition of delivery.

And thus killing mailing lists like freedom knights and cyperpunks?


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Never trust a country with more peaple then sheep.  ex-net.scum and proud
You Say To People "Throw Off Your Chains" And They Make New Chains For
Themselves? --Terry Pratchett

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