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   J.O. Aho to Moe Trin   
   Re: 2011 HOT UPDATES   
   23 Feb 11 05:50:50   
   
   From: user@example.net   
      
   Moe Trin wrote:   
      
   > as you can see the number of articles posted falling off.  In March,   
   > 2010, some idiot in Southern California began abusing the news server   
   > at news.tds.net by spewing repeats of previous articles, and a lot of   
   > people gave up on the group or began filtering messages with a   
   > message-ID containing 'time.synchro.net'.  The spew stopped in August,   
   > and there have only been 7 articles posted since then.   
      
   I did notify the BBS owner who had a misconfiguration, I only managed to get   
   hold of the previous owner of the BBS who said he would tell the guy, but I   
   have to say it didn't seem he did that.   
      
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     //Aho   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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