From: Janis.Kracht@filegate.net   
      
   >>> I tried sending a "heads up" to tds.net, synchro.net, and to synchro.net   
   >>> through pacbell.net/sbcglobal.net (their upstream) and godaddy (the   
   >>> registrar).  No responses and no results (not that I really expected   
   >>> that much).   There actually was a break in the spew between June 7 and   
   >>> July 3, but by then I doubt many people were still subscribed.   
      
   >> Looks like this issue has been resolved :)   
      
   > Rather late, but perhaps.   Yours is just the sixth article I seen   
   > posted to this group this year, and the eighth since the spew stopped   
   > back on the 20th of August last year.   
      
   Like everything else, newsgroups are generally not very active.   
   There as some exceptions of course.  Ubuntu groups seem active still.   
      
   >> I myself carry the newsgroup on both my news server (from where I am   
   >> posting this now) as well as on my own BBS.   
      
   > Hopefully you've got controls on posting - there was yet another BBS   
   > operator posting through synchro.net and tds.net who absolutely shit   
   > all over the 'alt.linux' group late last month.   My upstream was kind   
      
   Geez..   
      
   > enough to remove the 6466 articles posted in three days from their   
   > spool, and may (they haven't told me) simply filtered all posts from   
   > synchro.net and/or tds.net.   
      
   I don't think the problems you saw in this group, and in the alt.linux   
   group are related to say a particular user in a group.. I think it has to   
   do with a sysop who was carrying the area previously, and not wiping out   
   (deleting) say a particular news area - and then reinstalling his bbs setup   
   which then marked all the old articles as "new".   Yep, pretty dumb.   
      
   Take care,   
   Janis   
      
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