[forward] news.vsnl.net.in Newsfeed has been Terminated by MCI
David Voth
FYI everyone.
dv
Robert H. Eisner wrote in news.admin.net-abuse.usenet:
>
> Good News everyone!!! MCI has decided to terminated the Newsfeed
> to news.vsnl.net.in in India!!!
>
> The 1000's of Rogue Cancels that were being generated from the site
> by the HipCrime Agent appear to have been stopped for now.
>
> This is a copy of the e-mail that I received from MCI Usenet
> Policy this morning:
>
> Received: from Flame-War.pcy.mci.net ([204.70.138.50])
> by mtiwgwc01.worldnet.att.net (Intermail v3.1 117 241) with
> ESMTP
> id <19980513113...@Flame-War.pcy.mci.net>
> for <rhei...@worldnet.att.net>; Wed, 13 May 1998 11:37:52
> +0000
> Received: (from jeremy@localhost) by Flame-War.pcy.mci.net
> (8.7.5/8.6.12) id HAA26909 for rhei...@worldnet.att.net; Wed, 13 May
> 1998 07:36:53 -0400 (EDT)
> Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 07:36:53 -0400 (EDT)
> From: jer...@mci.net
> Message-Id: <1998051311...@Flame-War.pcy.mci.net>
> To: rhei...@worldnet.att.net
> Subject: Re: Massive Cancels originating from vsnl.net.in
> X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII
> X-Mozilla-Status: 0011
> Content-Length: 4598
>
> Robert,
>
> This sites' ability to send articles upstream to
> newsfeed.internetmci.com has been terminated. We are additionally
> filtering all articles that contain news.vsnl.net.in in the path line.
>
> Regards,
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Jeremy W. Powell
> Senior Usenet Engineer for MCI
> jer...@mci.net
>
> Is this a great time, or what? :-)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
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>
> >From rhei...@worldnet.att.net Wed May 13 00:35 EDT 1998
> Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 21:35:25 -0700
> From: "Robert H. Eisner" <rhei...@worldnet.att.net>
> Reply-To: rhei...@worldnet.att.net
> To: ne...@pcy.mci.net
> CC: ab...@internetmci.com
> Subject: Massive Cancels originating from vsnl.net.in
>
> To Internet MCI News
>
> One of your customers in India is currently issuing 1000's of
> Rogue Cancels on ALL articles in ALL Usenet News Groups!!!
>
> The abuse dept at vsnl.net.in has refused to take any action
> and the cancels have been non-stop for the last 24 hours.
>
> This has basically destroyed USENET!!!
>
> When are one of people at MCI going to get off your
> ASS and do something about this????
>
> Does anyone at MCI have the the authority to cut the
> Newsfeed to vsnl.net.in?
>
> There has already been over 10,000 cancels issued as of
> this hour. Most of the Usenet Groups have been completely
> destoryed!!!
>
> I would like an answers to this e-mail!!!
>
> From: CouncilOf3 <rev...@ix.netcom.com>
> Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
> Subject: cmsg cancel <354D720A...@ix.netcom.com>
> Control: cancel <354D720A...@ix.netcom.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 May 1998 02:40:18 GMT
> Organization: vsnl
> Lines: 2
> Message-ID: <ceqgcghbem.354...@ix.netcom.com>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.54.58.144
> X-Archive: No
> X-No-Archive: Yes
> Path:
> 206.74.59.105!news2.infoave.net!news-dc-10.sprintlink.net!news-dc-2.sprintlink.net!news-nysernet-5.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!209.130.129.214!nntp.frontiernet.net!europa.clark.net!208.134.241.18!newsfeed.internetmci.com!202.54.1.25!news.vsnl.net.in!pma...@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in
> Xref: 206.74.59.105 control.cancel:12611625
>
> Cancel.
>
> From: "Tezza" <te...@atinet.com.au>
> Newsgroups: soc.culture.malaysia
> Subject: cmsg cancel <6imi41$ef9$2...@nswpull.telstra.net>
> Control: cancel <6imi41$ef9$2...@nswpull.telstra.net>
> Date: Tue, 13 May 1998 02:40:10 GMT
> Organization: vsnl
> Lines: 2
> Message-ID: <xqbnyhggbt.6imi41$ef9$2...@nswpull.telstra.net>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.54.58.144
> X-Archive: No
> X-No-Archive: Yes
> Path:
> 206.74.59.105!news2.infoave.net!news-dc-10.sprintlink.net!news-dc-2.sprintlink.net!news-nysernet-5.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!209.130.129.214!nntp.frontiernet.net!europa.clark.net!208.134.241.18!newsfeed.internetmci.com!202.54.1.25!news.vsnl.net.in!pma...@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in
> Xref: 206.74.59.105 control.cancel:12611624
>
> Cancel.
>
> From: "Fuzzylogic97" <Fuzzyl...@hotmail.com>
> Newsgroups: soc.culture.singapore
> Subject: cmsg cancel <01bd7906$a6a15ec0$0501...@james.pacific.net.sg>
> Control: cancel <01bd7906$a6a15ec0$0501...@james.pacific.net.sg>
> Date: Tue, 13 May 1998 02:39:59 GMT
> Organization: vsnl
> Lines: 2
> Message-ID: <fdncaarllq.01bd7906$a6a15ec0$0501...@james.pacific.net.sg>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.54.58.144
> X-Archive: No
> X-No-Archive: Yes
> Path:
> 206.74.59.105!news2.infoave.net!news-dc-10.sprintlink.net!news-dc-2.sprintlink.net!news-nysernet-5.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!209.130.129.214!nntp.frontiernet.net!europa.clark.net!208.134.241.18!newsfeed.internetmci.com!202.54.1.25!news.vsnl.net.in!pma...@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in
> Xref: 206.74.59.105 control.cancel:12611623
>
> Cancel.
>
> From: na...@pacific.net.SPAMMERSDIE.sg (Ken!!!)
> Newsgroups: soc.culture.malaysia
> Subject: cmsg cancel <354ee46b...@news.pacific.net.sg>
> Control: cancel <354ee46b...@news.pacific.net.sg>
> Date: Tue, 13 May 1998 02:39:43 GMT
> Organization: vsnl
> Lines: 2
> Message-ID: <mlcmuxfdjn.35...@news.pacific.net.sg>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.54.58.144
> X-Archive: No
> X-No-Archive: Yes
> Path:
> 206.74.59.105!news2.infoave.net!news-dc-10.sprintlink.net!news-dc-2.sprintlink.net!news-nysernet-5.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!209.130.129.214!nntp.frontiernet.net!nntp.giganews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!202.54.1.25!news.vsnl.net.in!pma...@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in
> Xref: 206.74.59.105 control.cancel:12611621
>
> Cancel.
>
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