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Subject: Re: All messages in rec.games.chess.computer seem to have disappeared.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:12:26 09/29/03

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On September 27, 2003 at 06:54:44, Peter McKenzie wrote:

>On September 27, 2003 at 05:05:33, Geoff Lane wrote:
>
>>Is this problem specific to my computer or to everybody?
>
>Its an everybody thing.  I found this:
>
>------------------- start quote -----------------------
>Hi All,
>
>It appears that we have a Rogue Canceller that has been cancelling
>dozens of posts in the rec.games.chess.computer Newsgroup over the
>past two days!
>
>All of the Rogue Cancels are originating from "The GRID" Internet
>Services.  If one of your articles was Cancelled by this Rogue
>Canceller, then I suggest you send a complaint to the Abuse Dept at
>The GRID at abuse@thegrid.net along with the headers to one of the
>Rogue Cancels listed below.
>
>This is the break down of the articles that were cancelled:
>
>  spevans@home.com                 15 Articles Cancelled

There is a real winner for you.

>  xxxx@home.com                     9 Articles Cancelled


wonder who that one is?

I'd bet that the owner of the above two accounts is connected with
the cancellation activity.  He's certainly caused enough grief over
the past 5+ years.



>  hyatt@crafty.cis.uab.edu          1 Article Cancelled
>  schwartmann@netcologne.de         1 Article Cancelled
>  pddevlin@home.com                 1 Article Cancelled
>
>--------------------- end quote ----------------------
>
>Also, I've noticed that comp.lang.java.beans seems to have disappeared in
>similar fashion.  Probably a similar problem :-(
>
>cheers,
>Peter



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