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

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From: RIchard McCombs
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 09:18
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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,

It was not a robot it was a standard Waffle cancel; Waffle just happens
to let either the person that sent the message cancel it, or anyone with
sysop level access.

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From: rick@ricksys.lonestar.org (RIchard McCombs)
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Subject: Re: (Auto?)Canceller, stop it! (Re: Cancels)
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 03:18:27 CST
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