Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!caen!math.lsa.umich.edu!sharkey!tygra!cat
From: cat@tygra.ddmi.com (CAT-TALK Maint. Account)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Fool
Message-ID: <524@tygra.ddmi.com>
Date: 21 Nov 90 12:05:13 GMT
References: <8313@gollum.twg.com> <KARL.90Nov20091321@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: jpp@tygra.ddmi.com (John Palmer)
Organization: CAT-TALK Conferencing Network, Detroit, MI
Lines: 33

In article <KARL.90Nov20091321@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes:
"david@twg.com writes:
"   This recent flap over DDMI.COM...
"   A death-threat was made -- a shell script (less than 20 lines) was
"   written which, if installed at an active & well-connected site,
"   would effectively kill off any attempt by that site to make any
"   postings.
"

Hmmm. No death threat as far as I can tell.

"It's 28 lines; 18 of it is the ed(1) stuff to turn a posting into a
"cancellation of itself.  The rest is framework for deciding whether to
"cancel and so forth.
"
"But the script was largely an exercise, and the suggestion was never
"intended to be taken nearly as seriously as it was.  Nor did I make
"the original threat; I just created an implementation of the threat.

Yes - I could take such a script and make it do the following:
 
    -- Look for any cancellation messages of articles belonging
       to this site but not originating (the cancel message, that
       is) from the original poster.
 
    -- Add the address of the poster of the cancel message to the
       database.
 
    -- Cancel any and all articles coming from that address as 
       punishment for censorship.
 
Of course, I haven't written such a script. It would just be an 
"exercise". ;->