Re: tlug: MPT vs. English

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> >>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Scott> Newsgroups are just vehicles for spam mail, mostly X rated
>     Scott> spam mail.  I haven't seen anything of any meaningful
>     Scott> content on any of the groups in quite some time.  Usenet
>     Scott> seems to be practically unusable now that it's becoming so
>     Scott> over-spammed.  Maybe it should be renamed, "AbuseNet" ?
> 
> Scott, I'm shocked.  What newsgroups are you hanging out it?
> comp.emacs.xemacs and gnu.emacs.vm.info (or whatever it is) don't have
> any such problems.

Are they moderated?  comp.os.graphics.programming (I think),
alt.binaries.linux, and.. what was the other one I used to look at.. oh
yeah, the 'comp.os.linux.*' stuff .. used to be constantly spammed...


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