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Article #393Re: Canceling someone else's article
From: Neil Rickert
Date: Tue, 28 May 1991 20:37
Date: Tue, 28 May 1991 20:37
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In article <1991May28.200304.25371@solbourne.com> imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh) writes:
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>Take a look in rec.games.trivial.<12520@uwm.edu>.
>
For that matter, take a look at a bunch of other articles with message-id
ending in 'uwm.edu>'. The same jerk posted to multiple groups.
>I really wanted to cancel this article, but I didn't. So this brought
>to mind the following question:
So did I. But I wrote an email complaint to {usenet,Postmaster}@uwm.edu
instead. I haven't seen any action or response though.
> When, if ever, is it ethically OK to cancel an article posted
> by someone else?
Not wanting to destroy the evidence of a possible illegality, I just made
the local copies I could find publically unreadable.
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Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
Northern Illinois Univ.
DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!att!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Canceling someone else's article Message-ID: <1991May28.203704.5535@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 28 May 91 20:37:04 GMT References: <1991May28.200304.25371@solbourne.com> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 25