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Chris Lewis

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Jun 1, 1995, 3:00:00 AM6/1/95

EMP cancelled in 379 groups.

EMP stands for Excessive Multiple Postings. It means the same as the
term "spam" usually does, but is more accurate and self-explanatory.

The heuristics for this cancel are based _only_ on the article
being multiply posted (instead of cross-posted) to greater than
25 groups, with identical content. The actual content was
not considered in the decision to cancel.

There were three different Subjects: used in this spam: "Greetings",
"Hello" and "Thanks". The postings contained either the single
word "hello", or no words at all.

The "cancel." and cyberspam conventions have been followed.

One copy of the article is appended to the end of this posting.

|Path: bcarh8ac.bnr.ca!corpgate!news.utdallas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!hermes.oc.com!news.dfw.net!ssanctum!mark.robbins
|From: mark.r...@ssanctum.com (MARK ROBBINS)
|Newsgroups: tx.politics
|Subject: thanks
|Message-ID: <8AA6527.000B...@ssanctum.com>
|Date: Wed, 31 May 95 21:59:00 -0600
|Distribution: world
|Organization: Second Sanctum - Texas/DFW BBS LIST HOME 817 467-1175
|Reply-To: mark.r...@ssanctum.com (MARK ROBBINS)
|X-Newsreader: PCBoard Version 15.21
|X-Mailer: PCBoard/UUOUT Version 1.10
|Lines: 4
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|..
|
|___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12
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Rob J. Nauta

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Jun 2, 1995, 3:00:00 AM6/2/95

cle...@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:

>EMP cancelled in 379 groups.

>There were three different Subjects: used in this spam: "Greetings",

>"Hello" and "Thanks". The postings contained either the single
>word "hello", or no words at all.

|Path: bcarh8ac.bnr.ca!corpgate!news.utdallas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!hermes.oc.com!news.dfw.net!ssanctum!mark.robbins

Hmm this must be one of the most stupid spams I've ever seen ! 379 groups
with a meaningless 'thanks' or 'hello' message ?? One wonders what motivates
the joke spammers...

Rob
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Stephanie da Silva

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Jun 2, 1995, 3:00:00 AM6/2/95

In article <3qmh8t$m...@redwdnl.redwood.nl>,
Rob J. Nauta <r...@redwdnl.redwood.nl> wrote:

>cle...@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
>
>>EMP cancelled in 379 groups.
>

>>There were three different Subjects: used in this spam: "Greetings",
>>"Hello" and "Thanks". The postings contained either the single
>>word "hello", or no words at all.
>

>|Organization: Second Sanctum - Texas/DFW BBS LIST HOME 817 467-1175

>|___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12
>|
>
>Hmm this must be one of the most stupid spams I've ever seen ! 379 groups
>with a meaningless 'thanks' or 'hello' message ?? One wonders what motivates
>the joke spammers...

Strangely enough, this one struck me as someone testing his Usenet
gateway. In other words, a test message spam.

Arnoud Galactus Engelfriet

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Jun 3, 1995, 3:00:00 AM6/3/95

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In article <D9Jwp...@bonkers.taronga.com>,

Wasn't there something like a "Testing mail to news gateway,
please ignore..." spam a few months back? I believe there was
one with an ad in the .sig, but I also have this feeling Laurence
Canter once did something like this.

Galactus

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