XPost: soc.genealogy.ireland, soc.geneaogy.misc, soc.genealogy.computing   
   XPost: alt.genealogy   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   Spammers have recently attacked several genealogy newsgroups,   
   intending to hijack them.   
      
   I've noticed a sharp incease in spam in soc.genealogy.ireland and   
   soc.genealgy.misc   
      
   Spammers who hijack a newsgroup flood it with spam and drive out the   
   regular users who find that 99% of the messages are off-topic   
   spam.They have done this with soc.history, posting message welcoming   
   people to the local dating group for Mobile, Alabama, or some other   
   town in the USA. It's a bit counterproductive, though, because, having   
   driven all the regular users out, there's bno one left to read their   
   spam except other spammers.   
      
   But one of the lessons to learn is, use it or lose it.   
      
   If people don't use the newsgroups enough, it's like an empty house,   
   and the squatters move in.   
      
      
      
      
   --   
   Steve Hayes   
   Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/   
        http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com   
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afgen/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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