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Re: How do you message a person in this group?

Subject: Re: How do you message a person in this group?
From: Sean Fahey <a2fan@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:19:17 -0700 (PDT)
Complaints-to: groups-abuse@google.com
In-reply-to: <1942845212371424350.722512mjmahon-aol.com@news.giganews.com>
Injection-date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:19:18 +0000
Injection-info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.141.248.173; posting-account=sJd3XwoAAADMb-DYWFA488KlwyuydlpC
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
References: <108494d1-66a7-484a-9524-24bdb0c64dbe@googlegroups.com> <YourName-0910120935120001@203-118-187-23.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz> <1942845212371424350.722512mjmahon-aol.com@news.giganews.com>
User-agent: G2/1.0

On Monday, October 8, 2012 4:28:45 PM UTC-5, Michael J. Mahon wrote:

> It seems that newsgroup address harvesting, at least for the A2 groups, has
> gone out of style. ;-)

When the address harvesting is automated, there are no constraints or reasons not to scan the entire usenet.

I've noticed correlating patterns when posting to usenet, associated with spikes in spam reception. As long as it's Hotmail taking the hits, I don't care so much but if it were my server. Woof.

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- Re: How do you message a person in this group?
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