Re: Win a FREE trip to HAWAII.

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From: Eli the Bearded
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 00:00

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wildman <anywhere@you.like> wrote:
> Barnabas, barnabas@none.of.your.spamming.business.com, wrote:
> >What does "BTW this is vertical spam!!!" mean????
> Instead of cross-posting to a gazillion NG's, they 
> use software which posts to a list of NG's, or a block of them (i.e. 
> alt.binaries.*.*), individually, one at a time.

Originally this was "spam" and the crossposted variety had a different
name: "velveeta". Hitting entire blocks one at a time is still sometimes
called "alphabetical spam".

> or a NNTP server sets up a filter to eliminate cross-posts (such as Chris 
> has provided all of us on an optional basis), the spam still gets 
> through. Therefore this becomes vertical spam instead of cross 
> (horizontal) posted spam!!!

Yes. Alphabetically spams are fairly easy to detect by spam cancellers,
though that has little effect on altopia. Massive crossposts are also
easy to find. The tough ones are random group spams or very slow 
alphabetical.

Elijah
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three year veteran of the war on spam

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Subject: Re: Win a FREE trip to HAWAII.
Date: 1997/08/05
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