Re: comp.sys.apple2, FINAL NOTICE of Newsgroup Removal

["Tim Haynes" <tim.haynes@rogers.com>]

It's definitely a hoax.  This guy is trying to flood
news.admin.net-abuse.email with useless reply messages.

Thanks
Tim

"David Empson" <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote in message
1f5yfdi.g43ss81c70z4kN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz">news:1f5yfdi.g43ss81c70z4kN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz...
> Usenet Administration <admin@JASZE.NET.TR> wrote:
>
> > As many of you are aware, this newsgroup is slated
> > for removal on January 31st, 2002.  The vote was
> > taken at the end of last year, and there was a large
> > marjority who wants to see this group removed.
>
> This has got to be a hoax.  There is an almost identical message posted
> in comp.sys.apple2.marketplace.  Both come from the same machine
> (62.42.170.33, MU1-2A-u-0288.mc.onolab.com according to the DNS), are
> sourced from news.ono.com, and were posted 26 seconds apart, but have
> diferent domain names in the more obvious headers.
>
> There has not been any discussion in news.groups over the last two
> months on the removal of any Apple II news groups, nor has then been any
> such announcement on news.announce.newgroups.
>
> --
> David Empson
> dempson@actrix.gen.nz