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From: scs@itivax.UUCP (Steve C. Simmons)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin,comp.sources.wanted,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Ostracism Code For News, Mail Wanted
Message-ID: <362@itivax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 88 04:11:32 GMT
References: <360@itivax.UUCP>
Reply-To: scs@itivax.UUCP (Steve C. Simmons)
Organization: Industrial Technology Institute
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In article <360@itivax.UUCP> scs@itivax.UUCP (Steve C. Simmons) (me) writes:
>I am looking for ostracism code.  This should be a set of patches to
>news 2.11.14 which would silently bitbucket all postings from <user@site>,
>and a set of patches to smail/sendmail/ucbmail/lmail which would
>refuse sending of mail to <user@site> with an explanatory message,
>and silently bitbucket all mail to *or through* us from <user@site>.

Several folks have sent some well-reasoned comments boiling down to
"do what you like with your own site, but don't disrupt mail/news".
Good points, all.  OK, mail thru and news thru will remain unaffected.
It's just gonna be the equivalent of a global kill file.
-- 
Steve Simmons		...!umix!itivax!scs
Industrial Technology Institute, Ann Arbor, MI.
"You can't get here from here."