From: rumba@boomboom.com   
      
   > true. it's a level of company hate that is bizarre. that and the cross   
   > post goes to alt.recipe.babies or something. is this like a beanie baby   
   > sewing circle? if so, i'm trying to figure out what's the relevance.   
      
   Cross-posting to dead groups serves two purposes:   
   1) they can read all the replies to their varrious trollings in one   
   convenient group (they troll many different legit groups, cross-posting to   
   the same dead group)   
   2) they can check the activity of the dead group and keep 'score' by seeing   
   how much activity increases   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)