History
One of the first recorded cancelbots was created in June 1994 by Arnt Gulbrandsen within minutes of the first post of Canter & Siegel's second spam wave, as it was created in response to Canter & Siegel's better known "Green Card spam" in April 1994. Usenet spammers have alleged that cancelbots are a tool of the mythical Usenet cabal.
At one time, The Noble CancelMoose(tm) - a real human - took on a self-imposed duty to act as, in effect, a human cancelbot, though later she focused her efforts on a project known as NoCeM, a Unix cancelbot development effort still located (though largely inactive) at cm.org.
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