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

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

Forwarded message that explains things:

"What you're seeing are the ravings of a small-time failed spammer that
calls itself HipCrime. It has a 'bot that spews this junk in an effort to be
noticed, and to attempt to damage news.admin.net-abuse.email (follow-ups are
set there, not in your group), because it thinks that this will somehow
destroy the group. See the sites below for more information than you ever
want to know about this idiot.

http://www.geocities.com/hcfaq/
http://www.spamfaq.net/terminology.shtml
http://extra.newsguy.com/~rchason/
http://www.whew.com/On-Line_Spam/hipcrime_FAQ.shtml

Its latest technique is to post a forged notice of newsgroup removal, hoping
to attract indignant responses.

Please post these links in your newsgroup, to let other folks there know
what's going on. Since Drippy sets follow-ups to NANAE, nothing you post
about one of these threads will show up in your group."

"Marsha" <menacechgo@aol.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9194E1A7BA88Emenacechgoaolcom@128.242.171.114...
> dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote in
> 1f5yfdi.g43ss81c70z4kN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz:">news:1f5yfdi.g43ss81c70z4kN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz:
>
> > This has got to be a hoax.  There is an almost identical message posted
> > in comp.sys.apple2.marketplace.
>
> There are at least a dozen others that were sent out.
> (I group googled for the phrase "newsgroup is slated for removal on
January
> 31st, 2001" )
> most with different admin addresses.  Definately nothing that is official.
>
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