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From: bob@MorningStar.COM (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Who's Messing With The Usenet ?
Keywords: article, duplication, monkey business
Message-ID: <1989Sep21.175904.15822@MorningStar.COM>
Date: 21 Sep 89 17:59:04 GMT
References: <2056@avsd.UUCP> <14682@bfmny0.UU.NET> <8728@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM> <14715@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.COM (Bob Sutterfield)
Organization: Morning Star Technologies
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In article <14715@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
   ...some site (tropix?)  reposting hideously old articles with
   munged dates and times so they don't match history... The only cure
   for the (tropix?) thing is to lengthen your history retention
   period.

A better cure, requiring fewer megabytes on each of untold thousands
of Usenet sites, would be for the news neighbors of the offending site
to firewall the damage by corking its outbound feed until repairs are
verified complete.  If it's an NNTP feed, say "no no" in nntp_access;
for a UUCP feed, deny access to rnews in Permissions.  The
bogon-generating site would become a news roach motel.

No, this is neither fascist censorship nor asocial shunning.  It's
exercising collective responsibility for damage control.