Best wishes,
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Shirl
www.babe.demon.co.uk
>How very disappointing - when I saw the header my first thought that
>it was a Pre-UK5 mini-gathering! Ah, well...
What--you mean it ISN'T???
And here I already had my tickets...
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"The truth knocks on the door, and you say, 'Go away, I'm
looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling."
--Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
the above e-mail address remains totally fictional.
the real one is bc9424@spamTHIS!.concentric.net (if you remove spamTHIS!.)
...please check out http://www.mp3.com/BillChandler some time...
Bill Chandler
...bc...
I was very disappointed to see this link above. Please tell these offending
people to go away!!
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Best wishes
Nigel Tucker
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Carl Westerling.
The spammers (may they all burn) post everywhere, they never read the
groups themselves so it's no use replying and complaining and the posting
address is always a fake so you can't mail them back either. They are
very far down my personal list of people I like.
However: Most of them seem to be very stupid about how to actually post
to newsgroups, so they very often post HTML (or some other non-text format)
instead of plain text, all of which will be quietly dumped by my news
provider. So I never see those spam posts myself, only the replies.
And if they spam more than about 20-25 groups (most do) then the automatic
spambots (little programs that 'crawl' the newsgroups) will detect them
and automatically send 'cancel' messages that will propagate the net
and delete the messages very very soon after they show up in the first
place. But it only works if your ISP/newsgroup provider actually honours
cancel messages. Many don't.
Net result: I see only maybe 1% of the spam on this newsgroup.
But if your provider
1) Allow non-plaintext postings to non-binary (i.e. outside
the alt.binaries.* hierarchy) groups,
and/or
2) Don't honour cancel messages,
then you'll see all the spam.
-Tor