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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   
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