Re: What has happened to comp.binaries.apple2?

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <20031229041536.15860.00001169@mb-m21.aol.com>,
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>Thomas Kelly wrote:
>>What has happened to comp.binaries.apple2?
>
>The situation you describe has been going on for months now.  For a
>few weeks quite a while back, Scott Alfter attempted to "show the flag"
>by posting some Apple II software there, but it didn't make much of a
>dent on the hijacking.

I was also running a cancelbot for a while, but that got the attention of
the news-server operators at Cox...they thought I might've been spamming, so
they shut me down until I called them to explain what I was doing.  Even
once that was resolved, I'm not entirely sure if my cancelbot was effective. 
There are plenty of news servers out there that ignore cancel messages on
anti-"censorship" grounds, so newsgroup abusers would start using those
servers and would be able to keep sending inappropriate traffic without
interference.

The ISP through which most of the traffic originates, teleline.es, is
unresponsive to complaints.  I wouldn't mind seeing a Usenet Death Penalty
imposed on them, but the likelihood of getting one of those is approximately
the same as of a snowstorm in hell. :-(

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