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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: Canceling someone else's article
Message-ID: <1991May28.203704.5535@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 28 May 91 20:37:04 GMT
References: <1991May28.200304.25371@solbourne.com>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1991May28.200304.25371@solbourne.com> imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh) writes:
>
>Take a look in rec.games.trivial.<12520@uwm.edu>.
>
 For that matter, take a look at a bunch of other articles with message-id
ending in 'uwm.edu>'.  The same jerk posted to multiple groups.

>I really wanted to cancel this article, but I didn't.  So this brought
>to mind the following question:

  So did I.  But I wrote an email complaint to {usenet,Postmaster}@uwm.edu
instead.  I haven't seen any action or response though.

>	When, if ever, is it ethically OK to cancel an article posted
>	by someone else?

 Not wanting to destroy the evidence of a possible illegality, I just made
the local copies I could find publically unreadable.


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  Northern Illinois Univ.
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