Hold on to your news servers

Sat Nov 14 23:11:54 UTC 1998

*shrug*

If Karl's latest windmill attack adversely affects anyone (via leaking
cancels), I suspect folks will quickly find out who's feeding him and make
it stop.  This will be about as effective as his empty threat to somehow get
Playboy to punish folks who posted copyrighted images.  I believe someone
went so far as to post images with their own PGP signature to call his bluff
and nothing ever happened.

It's unfortunate that someone with such a long history and undoubtedly a
wealth of experience chooses to spend their time in these fruitless
endeavors rather than using that energy for something useful.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Spicer
To: Karl Denninger; jgarzik at pobox.com
Cc: nanog at merit.edu
Sent: 11/14/98 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: Hold on to your news servers

It sounds like you want to censor UseNet and you want to be the god
that gets to do that. I think UseNet will survive you as it has
survived everyone else. Everyone will OPT you OUT. I'm curious of
several things. 1.) Did you consult any Internet standards group or
organization about your plan for UseNet? 2.) What is your motivation
political or profit? Or do you answer to a higher authority?

At 07:25 PM 11/13/98 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Oh, those who want to try to sink this with public opinion (won't work;
>anyone who's known me for more than a day knows how much I count that
>in my evaluations) don't have to bother telling the truth.
>
>-
>-- 
>Karl Denninger (karl at denninger.net) http://www.mcs.net/~karl
>I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so
give
>up now on trying to associate my words with any particular
organization.
>
>
>On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 06:00:15PM -0700, John M. Brown wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be nice if people actually quoted things correctly....
>> 
>> Quoting from his FAQ as posted on inet-access. 
>> 
>> " THIS CANCEL ADVISORY SYSTEM IS OPT-IN; THE CANCELS 
>>   WILL *NOT* BE GENERALLY INJECTED BACK INTO THE USENET 
>>   NEWS STREAM. "
>> 
>> 
>
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