🚀 go-pugleaf

Further up the screen franco@elea.demon.co.uk wrote:
> 
> It's possible (but not commonly known) to remove posts from Usenet as
> they propagate. Cancellers and Cancelbots have been hot topics lately for
> two reasons. Firstly there was a massive en-masse cancelling by parties
> unknown targeted at various hierarchies, for vandalistic or political
> reasons. Figures of around 30000 cancellations have been mentioned, I think.
> 
> Another reason that cancelation has been 'in the news' is that some of the
> proposed censorship systems may use it.

Another reason is that some twit posted the C source code for a
cancelbot to comp.lang.c a couple of weeks back, meaning any brainless
idiot can do it!

Cheers,
Alun.

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