Newsgroups: news.admin.policy, news.admin.misc
From: hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 20:34:31 GMT
Subject: Re: sngmedia@world.std.com spams comp.*

kentb...@world.std.com (Kent Borg) writes:

> Looks like the World is acting responsibily in turning off the
> sngmedia account but I wish they would be more vocal about it....

So where are the cancels?  According to Seth Breidbart, the sgnmedia
people _want_ to cancel their message but don't know how.  But the
only cancel I've seen is from a moderator.  Is there nobody at
world.std.com to do this?

I realize a lot of admins don't accept cancels, but for those who
do--including those who check the batch and realize these are
appropriate fodder--a little cancel script would get the ball rolling.
And for a lot of low-traffic groups, an uncancelled spam can generate
noise a week later.

If we are not going to devote every usenet group to the promulgation
of and debate over spam, news admins need to get their tools ready for
generating the cancels.

I would ask some other site to help out sgnmedia and cancel it for
them, were I not afraid of triggering the keystone kancel phenomenon.
Anyone who does take on the job had better at least start slow, and
stop if they start seeing cancels from someone else coming their way.

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil