On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:46:55 -0600, Frank McCoy <mccoyf@millcomm.com>
wrote:
>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
Thank you.
Based on my not having gotten the original, could you do an experiment
for me and post a picture, maybe one of your wind chimes, and a
separate text only message. I've set Agent to treat this as a binary
group, but that wouldn't matter if the problem is GigaNews blocking
messages with binaries.
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I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America,
and to the republic which it established, one nation, from many peoples,
promising liberty and justice for all.
Feel free to use the above variant pledge in your own postings.
Tim Merrigan
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