Re: WaZaBoo! BBS 216-382-7040

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

copper wire wrote:

>In article <20031221173705.26046.00001544@mb-m06.aol.com>, mjmahon@aol.com
>(Michael J. Mahon) wrote:
>> Just for the record, com.sys.apple2.binaries doesn't get
>> any more spam than csa2.  Instead, it has been "hijacked"
>> by spanish-speaking exchangers of videos.
>
>
>Not to sound anal-retentive here but....
>One would assume that  comp.binaries.apple2  would be a newsgroup for the
>posting of Apple II binary programs, and not for the exchange of spanish
>speaking videos. So by definition, it is spam as it is unwanted postings
>which are not related in any way to the intent of the particular newsgroup
>in question.
>
>Perhaps the spanish speaking exchangers of videos should instead create a 
>rec.video.spanishvideos.traders  newsgroup or something like that.

(Sorry I screwed up the name of the newsgroup.  ;-)

I generally see "spam" used in the sense of unsolicited commercial
messages, not a coordinated mis-use of a binary channel, as this is.

In my opinion, "hijacking" is a different offense than "spamming".

I expect the reason they have hijacked it is that it already exists
as a binary files channel, carried by many news servers, and it
might not be so easy to gain that status for a newly-created group.

-michael

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