From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
Subject: Re: Reporting spamming/protecting against spamming on USENET
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:37:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zmzuhkqj.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4n7jnk7bzo.fsf@lifelogs.com>
>>>>> "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, sb@dod.no wrote:
>> Can your package report spam to anyone on USENET? Ie. is there a
>> cancelling agency somewhere that takes tips?
> The nature of Usenet is that it's decentralized and works by common
> agreement. Furthermore, cancelling any but your own articles is
> considered more rude than spam itself,
I used to think so, some years ago. But that was before spam became
the nuisance it is today.
> and you can't edit an article without cancelling and reissuing it,
> so the answer basically is no.
OK. Thanx!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-31 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-14 21:40 Steinar Bang
2004-12-14 22:26 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-12-31 9:37 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2005-01-01 14:58 ` Steinar Bang
2005-03-06 17:09 ` Steinar Bang
2005-03-06 17:58 ` Reiner Steib
2005-04-10 19:16 ` Can't mark spam in NNTP group (Was: Reporting spamming/protecting against spamming on USENET) Steinar Bang
2005-04-11 7:33 ` Can't mark spam in NNTP group Steinar Bang
2005-04-12 17:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2005-04-17 19:39 ` Steinar Bang
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