[24942] in Cypherpunks
Re: All I did was properly crosspost!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Duvos)
Fri Jan 6 22:41:35 1995
From: mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 16:20:04 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <9501062310.AB20311@eri.erinet.com> from "Paul J. Ste. Marie" at Jan 6, 95 06:10:50 pm
> 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
The individual who posted the first hysterical message about Carol's
alleged spam in a.c-e.n-a leaped to the conclusion that it was being
posted to a large number of groups because one of the newsgroups posted
to had a very low ordinal in the alphabetical list of all newsgroups.
The message itself, which he quoted, was only cross-posted to the
10 newsgroups specified. I believe the CancelMoose threshold for an
official spam is 50 newsgroups.
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