[24921] in Cypherpunks
Re: All I did was properly crosspost!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul J. Ste. Marie)
Fri Jan 6 18:35:13 1995
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 95 18:10:50 EST
To: Nesta Stubbs <nesta@nesta.pr.mcs.net>, Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
From: pstemari@erinet.com (Paul J. Ste. Marie)
At 08:58 AM 1/6/95 +0000, Nesta Stubbs wrote:
>On Fri, 6 Jan 1995, Carol Anne Braddock wrote:
> ...
>> I "crossposted" it to my favorite 10 newsgroups. Just 10.
>> Some creep complained. (we'll get to him a bit later).
>>
>ten is not a large number when it comes o cross-posting on soem topics, I
>can think of at lezast tewenty newsgroups where the PRZ letters and such
>would make alot of sense and be on topic. This just goes to show the
>soemtimes reactionar steps people take to control spamming. ...
The discussion on alt.current-events.net-abuse seemed to indicate that the
claim of "Just 10" above is a slight understandment. The newsgroups seem to
have been hit alphabetically, and I believe the total count was in the hundreds.
--Paul J. Ste. Marie
pstemari@well.sf.ca.us, pstemari@erinet.com
