ARMM (Usenet)

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Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation (ARMM) was a program developed in 1993 by Richard Depew to aid in the control of Usenet abuse. Concerned by abusive posts emanating from certain anonymous-posting sites, Depew developed ARMM to allow news administrators to automatically issue cancel messages for such posts. This was a controversial act, as many news administrators and users were concerned about censorship of the netnews medium.

An early version of ARMM contained a bug which caused it to post follow-ups to its own messages, recursively sending posts to the news.admin.policy newsgroup. This was an early example of (unintentional) Usenet spam.[1][2]

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  1. ^ http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/A/ARMM.html
  2. ^ http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=tweekC4qM0A.H3q%40netcom.com
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