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Mad junk mail disease

Roy Smith roy at phri.nyu.edu
Thu May 31 16:58:52 EST 1990


kristoff at genbank.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson) writes:
-> There is an easy solution to this problem if it becomes a major annoyance.
-> We can at any time convert the BIOSCI newsgroups into a moderated forum.
-> [...] In response to another incident on the newsgroups (not the above and
-> so infantile that I almost did not want to reply)

	Making the bionet groups moderated won't help.  I assume you're
referring to the recent cowabunga plague.  Note that it appeared on various
moderated groups, with forged Approved: headers.
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