From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: [meta] Spam and cancels
Date:	Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:44:08 -0400
Organization:	Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt.
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References:	<ICc_.755$m7 DOT 133694 AT news21 DOT bellglobal DOT com>
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> 
> What's with the spam and forged cancels? Someone has cancelled both of my
> articles reporting problems with the pentium cc1plus and memory, and there are
> no fewer than four spams by "nobody AT nowhere DOT com" advertising sex sites...
> 
> If someone's going to cancel other people's articles, may I suggest that they
> cancel the sex spams and not on-topic posts about problems or other aspects of
> DJGPP tools???

I saw your post; it's on my news server right now: 
<9hAZ.3264$sN3 DOT 543198 AT news21 DOT bellglobal DOT com>.  There were two replies,
one by SET and one by Elliott Oti.  If that's not what you're talking
about, then I don't know.  Try searching the mail archives to see if
they got there.

There's no way to filter spam like those sex ads from the news server. 
DJ's mail gateway does automatically filter then from the mailing list,
but we who read news are stuck with them.  If you are upset, forward a
copy of the message headers to the originating site.  It's sad, but
these people claim they have the legal right to post their unwanted
messages...

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