In article <386254F2.C60D1219 at medctr.osu.edu>,
unknown <unknown at medctr.osu.edu> writes:
>> The Bionet admins have always refused to do anything about cancelling
> spam. They don't process the spam cancellations that they receive.
> They make no effort to cancel the spam they can see right there on their
> own screens. I've never understood this. It would not be a problem for
> them. It is not a problem for the thousands of other news server admins
> across the world. Perhaps if enough of us were to encourage them they
> could at least institute the policy of processing cancels. I'm
> convinced that it would go a long way toward making the bionet
> newsgroups more useful.
And who are these "Bionet admins" of whom you speak?
(If we get sent a legitimate cancel message, it will be dealt with the
same way as any other. Doesn't help the stuff that's already gone out
onto mailing lists, though.)
For those who don't know, the bio.net servers have recently moved from
Stanford to the UK. Just the move itself was extremely hard work, and
we're just about at the stage now of having most of the service running
again.
Have patience! Dealing with spam is on our agenda, but at the moment
we're rather busy with making the thing work at all. And the holiday
season is upon us. Merry Christmas!
--
-Peter Tribble
HGMP Computing Services
http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/~ptribble/
