From: et472@ncf.ca   
      
   On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, Je?us wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 14:39:18 -0500, Michael Black    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, trout pitch wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Why are these solutions manuals in a simpsons group?   
   >>>   
   >>> (still wrapping my head around how usenet does things)   
   >>>   
   >> SOmetimes there is no logic to a problem.   
   >>   
   >> Those posts show up in technical newsgroups (where they seem   
   >> at least somewhat related, though I've never bothered to see   
   >> what the manuals were offering solutions to).   
   >>   
   >> But, the minix newsgroup has been hit recently with spam about   
   >> drug rehab places, I think in INdia.  SInce those arent' appearing   
   >> elsewhere, I really do wonder why that obscure and technical newsgroup is   
   >> getting the spam.   
   >>   
   >>   Michael   
   >   
   > Because the posts show up on ordinary (non-usenet) google searches.   
   >   
   But that happens now anyway.   
      
   One problem with the minix newsgroup is that it's on a timeline of Usenet   
   that google put up, and since they still haven't fixed the bug that allows   
   replies to messages older than 30 days, some historical threads about the   
   beginning of Linux have been vandalized, carpetbaggers thinking it's fun   
   to reply to an almost 25 year old post.   
      
      Michael   
      
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