In alt.fan.frank.mccoy Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 16:32:42 -0500, Bill Marcum
><marcumbill@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>>["Followup-To:" header set to alt.fan.frank.mccoy.]
>>On 2007-11-08, Peter Pearson <ppearson@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>>
>>Crossposted to unrelated newsgroups, Re: with no References: header,
>
>Speaking of "crossposted to unrelated newsgroups", the original
>message doesn't seem to have been posted to this froup.
>
>P.S. relating to the "survey", what is "UDP"?
"Usenet Death Penalty"
If invoked, (usually for very egregious spamming) Usenet servers agree
not to carry post from the offending domain.
Somebody out there (and I think not this person) is hosting a server
that's really putting out a *LOT* of crap lately. The alt.sex* groups
are really getting flooded all of a sudden. I'm not sure about other
groups. Alt.sex.stories.d, for example, is suddenly getting about two
dozen or more spam posts a day; when before we used to get only one or
two.
This might be a response to that sort of thing.
It usually happens when a server becomes a home for spammers; and
doesn't care what or how much crap they post; just being happy to take
money from anybody, no matter how much they disrupt the newsgroups.
It's because of such servers that the UDP was invented. The UDP makes
it unprofitable to have customers like that; because you can't sell a
service you don't supply. It's very rarely invoked.
http://www.stopspam.org/faqs/udp.html
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