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> 
> On Sun, 23 Nov 97 22:50:12 GMT, dporter@skyenet.net (Don Porter)
> wrote:
> 
> >In article <34766ed1.0@news>, "Wanderer" <wanderer@why.net> wrote:
> >
> >>Why is this in altnet's group?  Simple.  You see, a lot of the more
> >>persistent spammers were funneling their posts through alt.net, while the
> >>management, for some obscure reason, decided that having abusive posts full
> >>of profanity being spread all over Usenet by their server was all right with
> >>them.
> >
> >FWIW, if you would bother to check news.admin.net-abuse.usenet, you will notice
> >that alt.net ranks consistently *low* in the amount of spam generated for a
> >service of its size. How you can maintain that peristent spammers have been
> >funneling thir posts through it is beyond me. Please do some homework before you
> >make such obviously bogus generalizations.
> >
> >Second, one of the alt.horror.werewolves posters, FotCA, had the audacity to
> >propose a Usenet-wide death penalty of alt.net because of a relatively small
> >number of off-topic posts she claimed were posted to a.h.w. by someone from
> >alt.net. By Usenet tradition, posts centering around behavior specific to a
> >newsgroup are crossposted to that group, so that its readers may be aware of
> >developments.
> >
> >Rather than request a halt in crosspostings to a.h.w. by folks from alt.net, I
> >suggest you and FotCA might offer alt.net's customers an  apology for her
> >totally baseless call for a UDP. Then you might get a civil response.

And who noticed the disappearance of the original after those
untruths were exposed for what they were?

> FotCA's actions have not made ahww or it's posters
> high on the popularity list.  If he/she/it wanted posts to
> stop, the methods employed directly contradict normal
> reactions of human nature.  Of course, you can't expect
> werewolves to understand human nature.
> 
> What really shocks me is there was a 1000+ section
> binary posted to ahww from some server and ~30 posts
> from alt.net.  So which server do you call a UDP for?
> 
> alt.net of course!  Such is the way of a maligned mind.
> 
> Between FotCA and Stan Kalisch with their irrational
> behavior, one wonders why so many mental hospitals
> were closed in the past 2 decades.  They are examples
> of potential "clients" for such institutions.

You of course do realize that this is supposed to x-posted to
alt.usenet.kooks as FotCA has been nominated for one of those
Very Prestigious Awards.