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- From: fdrennon@mont.mindspring.com (Floyd Drennon)
- Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.misc,alt.retromod,comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,rec.games.video.nintendo
- Subject: Re: bincancel:3 large binaries:AR160:@@NCM
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 01:37:17 GMT
- Organization: Comp-U-Comm
- Message-ID: <4gtn8d$4nd@firebrick.mindspring.com>
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- In message <4gticm$372@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> - tskirvin@arh0062.urh.uiuc.edu
- (Tim
- Skirvin) writes:
-
- :> You do of course realize that cancelbots have been around for
- :>years now, and this apocalypse of yours hasn't even come close to
- :>happening.
-
- Here's a couple of extracts from the cancel.faq that may help clarify a few
- things:
-
-
- å
- C. Who is generally allowed to issue cancels?
-
- In general terms, the only people that are always authorized to
- issue cancels for a message are the original author of the message and
- the postmaster at the site the message was posted from. However, there
- are rules that allow third-party cancels in specific circumstances, such
- as group moderation, spam and spew cancellations, article forgeries, and
- a few other limited circumstances; those people in charge of these
- duties are generally authorized to issue cancels directly relating to
- the job.
-
-
- å
- C. But I wasn't doing anything wrong! Why was it cancelled?
-
- There's still legitimate reasons beyond official net-abuse to
- cancel posts. The moderator of a moderated newsgroup is permitted to
- cancel messages in his newsgroup that he did not approve. Individual
- newsgroups and hierarchies may have rules permitting them to cancel
- messages posted there; this applies especially to local hierarchies
- and non-Big 8/alt.* hierarchies. Your post may have unintentionally
- met the searching criteria for the auto-cancel of a continuing spam;
- contact the canceller in this case. Your postmaster may have decided
- that they didn't like your post; if this is really a problem, I
- recommend that you get a new service provider.
-
-
- D. Look, pal, I said I wasn't doing anything wrong, and I meant it. I
- didn't break any rules that I can see. *Why was my post cancelled?*
-
- I don't know.
-
-
- E. *sigh* Then what do I do about it?
-
- Post about it to news.admin.net-abuse.misc. Make sure to
- include the full headers and text of the cancel, an explanation of what
- the article was about, and any possible motives for the cancelling that
- you can think of. The administrators there will, if you're polite, try
- to help.
-
-
-
- Floyd Drennon
- fdrennon@mont.mindspring.com
- OS/2 & Lan Server Certified Instructor
- Comp-U-Comm
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