In a previous article, Mike 'Flyin'8' said:
Has anyone thought about using a program that looks a certain
individuals name and immediatly issues a usenet message cancel based
upon said users name and the newly posted subject?

http://home.att.net/~marjie1/Cancels.htm

I've been a Usenet news administrator since before Geoff Peck championed
the split of rec.aviation, and I have a couple of things to say:

- Any decent Usenet administrator who finds people doing content based
third party cancels on his system will remove the person doing the
content based cancels. Censorship will not be tolerated on a system I
run.
- Because so few news sites are run by decent Usenet administrators,
however, and because people like you are ****ing idiots and have abused
the cancel system, many major sites ignore all cancels, so you can't
even cancel your own messages off those sites, never mind legitimate
spam cancelling. If your newsgroups are drowning in spam, you have only
the idiots who think they can cancel people they disagree with to blame.

--
Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/
"The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it
is a complete substitute for life." --Andrew Brown