Original sentence: In response to the activities of Meowers, some anonymous remailers were modified so that news posting was restricted, and many open servers were closed.May Usenet administrators and users saw abuse of anonymous remailers and open news servers as a nuisance.Unlike cancels, server-side filtering only affects the servers on which it is installed.Usenet administrator Kalisch III then declared a limited form of Usenet Death Penalty (UDP) when he became offended by what he termed "spammed cascades.While the original Meowers, for the most part, moved on to other things (including, in some cases, network administration) or left Usenet altogether, other Usenet users have perpetuated similar posting activity as late as 2004, albeit on a smaller scale
Edited sentence: Kalisch III then declared a limited form of Usenet Death Penalty (UDP) when he became offended by what he termed "spammed cascades.Some anonymous remailers were modified so that news posting was restricted, and many open servers were closed.Unlike cancels, server-side filtering only affects the servers on which it is installed... a far more elegant and less-legally-challengeable solution to spam, real or perceived, than arbitrary, unilateral imposition of a pointless UDP.While abuse of anonymous remailers and open news servers was long recognized as a nuisance, the activities of Meowers led some to a wider belief that it was a threat.While the original Meowers, for the most part, moved on to other things (including, in some cases, network administration) or left Usenet altogether, imitators have perpetuated similar posting activity as late as 2004, albeit on a smaller scale