Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!eci386!clewis
From: clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: A deluge of email
Message-ID: <1989Jun19.161146.21609@eci386.uucp>
Date: 19 Jun 89 16:11:46 GMT
References: <1223@altos86.UUCP> <575@lakart.UUCP>
Reply-To: clewis@eci386.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: R. H. Lathwell Associates: Elegant Communications, Inc.
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In article <575@lakart.UUCP> dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:

>Dave - try to use rn to read the article and cancel it with a 'C' - that
>sends out a message that will can the article on any system.

The cancel would probably bounce exactly the same way and double the flood
of mail he's getting.  Certainly won't cancel the mail that's already been
generated.

I'm a little puzzled tho - if Dave's machine has the group marked as moderated
(as he seems to imply), a single mail item would be sent to the moderator, 
and it would *not* appear in the newsgroup, and it would not cause the bouncing.

Whereas, if his machine marked it unmoderated, his machine would put it
in the newsgroup, and all of the other machines would start bouncing it.
-- 
Chris Lewis, R.H. Lathwell & Associates: Elegant Communications Inc.
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Phone: (416)-595-5425