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Re: (Auto?)Canceller, stop it! (Re: Cancels)

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From: Ken Bibb
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 20:08
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In <BzxM4L.L46@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:

>In article <1992Dec27.165426.27597@ennews.eas.asu.edu> sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman ) writes:
>>Works for rn. I was waiting to test the following line in the killfile
>>when I noticed that nothing got killed because someone else seems
>>to be doing a cancel for everyone of us!

>Uh huh... something I don't appreciate in the least, because I was looking
>forward to Argyc's (sic) response to Josh Smith's jibberish article.

>Damn it, canceller, whoever you are, stop it.  Robot or no robot,
>appropriate or not appropriate, this isn't the answer.  Who gives you
>the right to decide what *I* want to/should read?  When I'm sick of
>even seeing the flood of Argyc robot-posts I'll use my own kill-file,
>thank you.  In the meantime know that I think no better of you than
>of the person behind the Argyc robot... 

I think you have me to thank for that :-/  I complained to
postmaster@anatolia.mn.org that the posts were inappropriate for
news.admin.policy and he said that he would remove them.

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