You can look at the path of the cancel message and see who is feeding the trash site that canceled your article. For example the megalith trash are generally feeding into sprint, uunet or iag.net.
If you see 207.100.79.55 at the end of the path that is the trash at gil.net who is canceling articles.
It is our hope that the cancel evidence provided here will be helpful to you in any action that you undertake. Sure some of these cancels are spam being canceled; but a whole bunch of them are not, and are evidence of malicious net trash who wish to dominate and control public newsgroups according to their whim and fancy.
For example, if the path on your cancel says on the end:
news.iag.net!fdma.com!cyberspam!usenet
Then that means that the known trash site iag.net is publishing the cancels for fdma.com and you should consider iag.net a willing accessory with fdma.com in any legal complaint that you might file, and you can also complain to them directly, as well as the ISP for fdma.com
If the path of the cancel was authentic and ended with:
!news-peer.sprintlink.net!megalith.miami.fl.us!cyberspam!usenet
Then you would know that it was the megalith trash being assisted by US Sprint who canceled your article>
Here is some contact information for some of the more notorious sites that are either issuing cancels or supporting the trash who do.
A trace route for the malicious trash megalith.miami.fl.us yields the following:
tracerte megalith.miami.fl.us
0 megalith.gil.net (207.100.79.55) 718 ms 281 ms 313 ms
Then a whois yields:
Whois: gil-dom
Global Information Link, Inc (GIL-DOM)
7921 SW 147 Ct
Miami, FL 33193
US
Domain Name: GIL.NET
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Garnett, Jeffrey (JG395) garnett@GIL.NET
(305) 386-9997 (FAX) (305) 382-4553
Record last updated on 04-Nov-96.
Record created on 16-Apr-95.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS.GIL.NET 207.100.79.9
NS0.ICIX.NET 206.72.128.34
Here is fdma.com, You can complain to ops@bbnplanet.net regarding fdma canceling your articles in public groups.
Florida Datamation, Inc. (FDMA-DOM)
6405 Congress Ave #140
Boca Raton, FL 33487
US
Domain Name: FDMA.COM
Administrative Contact:
Scheidell, Michael (MS346) scheidell@FDMA.COM
(561) 241-2966
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Hillestad, John (JH285) hillestad@FDMA.COM
(561) 241-2966
Billing Contact:
Jorgensen, Sue (SJ561) jorgensen@FDMA.COM
(561) 241-2966
Record last updated on 15-Apr-97.
Record created on 01-Nov-94.
Database last updated on 27-Jun-97 05:42:48 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS.FDMA.COM 207.243.154.130
KNOCK.SER.BBNPLANET.NET 192.239.16.129
NS2.BARRNET.NET 131.119.246.6
Here is IAG.NET, a trash site that has long supported fdma.com in running cancelbots
The Internet Access Group, Inc. (IAG2-DOM)
801 W. Highway 436 - Suite 2151
Altamonte Springs, FL 32714
Domain Name: IAG.NET
Administrative Contact:
Peiman, Neil (NP21) npeiman@IAG.NET
407-786-1145 FAX 407-682-7837
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Gogulski, Mike (MG401) syadasti@IAG.NET
407-786-1145
Record last updated on 30-Aug-95.
Record created on 13-Dec-94.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.IAG.NET 204.27.210.5
NS2.IAG.NET 204.27.210.8
DNS1.UTELFLA.COM 138.210.81.3
Here is Sprint
news-admin@sprint.net
SprintLink Internetworking Services (SPRINTLINK-DOM)
VAHRNA0401
13221 Woodland Park Road
Herndon, VA 22071
Domain Name: SPRINTLINK.NET
Administrative Contact, Billing Contact:
Kurt, Gastrock (GK368) gastrock@SPRINT.NET
1-800-230-5108
Technical Contact, Alternate Contact:
Sprint Network Info. & Support Center (SPRINT-NOC) noc@sprintlink.net
(800) 669-8303
Zone Contact:
Goel, Vab (VAB-US) vgoel@SPRINT.NET
7039042635
Record last updated on 29-Oct-96.
Record created on 11-May-92.
Domain servers in listed order:
ICM1.ICP.NET 192.94.207.66
NS1.SPRINTLINK.NET 204.117.214.10
Here is UU.NET
abuse@uu.net
UUNET Technologies, Inc. (UU-DOM)
3060 Williams Drive
Falls Church, Virginia 22031
Domain Name: UU.NET
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
UUNET Postmaster (UUPM) postmaster@uunet.uu.net
(703) 206-5803
Record last updated on 26-Apr-95.
Record created on 20-May-87.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS.UU.NET 137.39.1.3
UUCP-GW-1.PA.DEC.COM 204.123.2.18 16.1.0.18
UUCP-GW-2.PA.DEC.COM 16.1.0.19
NS.EU.NET 192.16.202.11
Here is MPCS.COM which is also the source of the malicious Winterizer NoCem articles.
MPC Systems (MPCS-DOM)
PO Box 275
Melbourne, FL 32902-0275
Domain Name: MPCS.COM
Administrative Contact, Billing Contact:
Taylor, Robert (RT31) rtaylor@MPCS.COM
407 727-9022
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Patellis, Dan (DP697) dpatelli@PROG.MPCS.COM
407 727-9022