🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 24 Oct 1996 21:35:33 -0400, olson@ici.net (Jeremy J. Olson)
wrote:

>%  have any news there - just the same damn spam, echoed across every single 
>%  group on the net!!!!!  Look at the header on the message I'm replying to 
>%  (I guess this one, too) this whole thread is copied onto about a hundred 
>%  thousand newsgroups across the whole fucking net!!!!   It's one thing for 
>%  these guys to advertise to COMPLETELY UNRELATED newsgroups, where NOBODY 
>%  GIVES A RIP about their stupid pyramid schemes IN THE FIRST PLACE, but 
>%  then they figure out how to duplicate the spam to EVERY GROUP OUT HERE!
>%  Now, aside from the technical marvel of this (which I'll admit to not 
>%  having figured out) it gets PRETTY ANNOYING to see THE SAME STUPID SPAM 
>%  EVERYWHERE YOU GO!!!  Why not just eliminate the partitioning of the 
>%  NewsNet into interest groups and throw everything into ONE POT, where 
>%  everybody could advertize away...   It's crowding out the INFORMATION 
>%  anyway, as far as I can tell...!
>
>
>meh.
>
>Jeremy Olson = olson@ici.net
>http://www.ici.net/cust_pages/olson/olson.html


I dont know the definition of a SPAM, but I do know that I am annoyed
already by the junk mail in every one of these newsgroups.  I just
started checking out newsgroups last week.

My first reaction is, it is annoying..and as inevitable as reall snail
junk mail.  :) 


Paula Stout

pstout@fn.net