Let's not forget the wars about "sigs" because they used up too much
bandwidth!

--Mike

"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:16:16 -0500, Bert Robbins
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:21:58 -0500, Bert Robbins
wrote:

Do you remember the Richard Depew(sp?) incident of the early 90's?
I do - it was an interesting application.

I bet 'cha can't guess who uses cancelbots currently (without looking
it up that is).
You are correct, I have no idea who is using cancelbots today.

The Church of Scientology. They use something called Cancelbunny.

That makes sense due to the fact that their religious texts are
copyrighted. I have never understood the purchasing of salvation or
enlightenment.

I just remember that I was involved in tiff with The Dick about his
actions. He said that he had been appointed/approved as a net cop by
somebody I can't remember. I asked to see his badge and he said he
didn't have one.

Usenet was much more interesting in those days. :)

The vote No wars to prevent new groups from being created. Hooking up to a
UUCP site via a 1200 bps modem. Telling people there wasn't enough space
on the news server for the group to have more than 1 days worth of
messages. That was back when UNIX admins were Kings.