-
April 1994.
Usenet spammers have
alleged that
cancelbots are a tool of the
mythical Usenet cabal.
Cancelbots must
follow community consensus to be able to...
- (1993) Meow Wars (1996–1998)
Terminology Backbone cabal Breidbart Index Cancelbot Crossposting Flaming Godwin's law Kill file
Otherkin Sock
puppet account...
-
volunteer anti-spam
efforts on
Usenet and
operated many bots,
including cancelbots, as part of
these efforts.
Journalists Wendy M.
Grossman and
Andrew Leonard...
- (1993) Meow Wars (1996–1998)
Terminology Backbone cabal Breidbart Index Cancelbot Crossposting Flaming Godwin's law Kill file
Otherkin Sock
puppet account...
-
newsgroups in June 1994. This time, Arnt
Gulbrandsen put
together a
software "
cancelbot" to
trawl Usenet and kill
their messages within minutes.
Canter claimed...
- used.
Additional hierarchy specific rules (see
Breidbart Index)
allow cancelbots to send third-party
cancels to
remove spam.
Example Control: cancel...
-
automatically cancelled by
third parties or
their agents, such as by
using cancelbots. P****ive: with a p****ive UDP,
messages that fall
under the UDP will simply...
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Starting in 1995,
large numbers of
rogue cancels were
posted to ARS by a
cancelbot dubbed "Cancelbunny",
mainly against critical articles containing portions...
- (1993) Meow Wars (1996–1998)
Terminology Backbone cabal Breidbart Index Cancelbot Crossposting Flaming Godwin's law Kill file
Otherkin Sock
puppet account...
- bot is
notable as one of the
first escalations in the spam arms race.
Cancelbot, a
process that
sends out
cancel messages Ohm, Paul K Skirvin, Tim Ohm...
