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|    MB to Steve Hayes    |
|    Re: Spam    |
|    20 May 18 00:09:06    |
      From: MB@nospam.net              On 19/05/2018 11:16, Steve Hayes wrote:       > Someone is TELLING people that they can use newsgroups like       > soc.genealogy.britain and soc.history as a kind of contact centre for       > romantic/sexual meetups, and they need to be told not to. Maybe 10%       > are spammers, the others are ones who have been drawn to the spam like       > a honeypot. They haver been told to come here, so they do.              I doubt it, there are plenty of newsgroups that have little or no       traffic so I expect someone wanting to do that would chose one of them.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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