From: "Netsurge" 

On 11-05-04 8:46 PM, Access Denied wrote:
>    To: Mercyful Fate
>    Re: Re: Ping
>    By: Mercyful Fate to Netsurge on Wed May 04 2011 01:09 am
>
>   >  newsgroups, i usually just ignore as they seem to be riddled with ad's
and
>   >  spam.. sorta a waste..
>
> Odd. I don't think I've ever seen spam or ads in this base.

I have never allowed the bbs-scene.* usenet grouping to be backboned 
across the nntp peers.  The only place you can grab any of the 
bbs-scene.* or scinet.* newsgroups is on news.bbs-scene.org.  That 
pretty much eliminates all spam.

-- 

frank aka netsurge
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